Major League Baseball's Arizona Diamondbacks will be faced with protests at visiting stadiums across the country due to the passage of a controversial new immigration law passed there.

The Arizona Republic reported Thursday that sponsors of the protest believe that the team's owner supports "Republican politics." Arizona Republican Gov. Jan Brewer signed the bill last week.

The bill, which requires state law enforcement to check the documentation of individuals they suspect are illegal immigrants is causing a stir in Arizona -- where some have called for a boycott of the state -- and also on Capitol Hill.

House Democrats are using the bill to push the Senate to pass a comprehensive immigration reform bill. Nearly all Democrats and several Republicans in Congress have voiced worry about the bill. Many other Republicans have said that Arizona has the right to pass its own laws on the issue.

The Diamondbacks are scheduled to play the Chicago White Sox at Wrigley Field Thursday, and stadium managers are preparing for a protest.

Aided by the creation of Facebook pages such as "Boycott Arizona 2010," organizers of the protest say that the Diamondbacks should be prepared for similar scenes in every city they visit this season. Tony Herrera, who created "Boycott Arizona 2010," told the Republic, "This team is an ambassador for Arizona, and the owner, Mr. (Ken) Kendrick, is a big supporter of Republican politics. This new law was a Republican bill. Until the law is changed, there should be protests."

The Diamondbacks responded Thursday in a statement, saying, "Although D-backs' Managing General Partner Ken Kendrick has donated to Republican political candidates in the past, the organization has communicated to Boycott Arizona 2010 leader Tony Herrera that Kendrick personally opposes (Senate) Bill 1070. The team also explained that Kendrick is one of nearly 75 owners of the D-backs and none of his, nor do the other owners', personal contributions reflect organizational preferences. The D-backs have never supported (Senate) Bill 1070, nor has the team ever taken a political stance or position on any legislation."

This isn't the only way baseball has come into play when it comes to the Arizona immigration law. Rep. Jose Serrano (D-N.Y.) has called on Major League Baseball (MLB) to move its All-Star game from Phoenix this season.

"As a fervent baseball fan and a supporter of immigrants’ rights, I cannot abide the thought of a celebration like the All-Star Game being held in Phoenix this year,” Serrano said in a statement. “I will be reaching out to contacts in Major League Baseball in the coming days and urging them in the strongest possible terms to move the All-Star Game to another state."

The prospect of that appears unlikely for now, MLB selects its All-Star sites years in advance.

Former South Carolina First Lady Jenny Sanford isn’t buying Rielle Hunter’s excuse that John Edwards’ marriage was already over when she began her affair with him in 2006.

Appearing as a guest co-host on ABC's “The View” on Thursday, Sanford said there is no excuse for getting involved with a married man.
 
Hunter is “not 18,” said Sanford. “[She] knew what [she was] doing.”

Hunter has repeatedly claimed that she bears no responsibility for the break-up of John and Elizabeth Edwards' marriage, despite having had a two-year affair with the then-married Edwards, which produced a child. She has said the marriage was emotionally over long before she met Edwards.

Hunter will be a guest Thursday afternoon on the Oprah Winfrey show.

Adultery is a topic Jenny Sanford knows plenty about.
 
Sanford’s husband, Gov. Mark Sanford (R), admitted to a long-running extramarital affair in June of 2009, after he was caught returning from a covert visit to Argentina to visit his mistress.
 
The ensuing scandal threatened to force Sanford from office. After numerous attempts at reconciliation, the Sanfords’ divorce was finalized in March of this year.

On a lighter note, Jenny Sanford (pictured here with co-host Barbara Walters) wasn't shy about telling her fellow View hosts about her new boyfriend, Georgia businessman Clay Boardman. 
 
“I've been divorced six weeks and I'm already dating someone!” Sanford gushed. “He's the neighbor I never knew, and between us we've got seven kids.”
 
Sanford has four teenaged sons, while Boardman has three children.

Sen. Scott Brown's (R-Mass.) daughter got one step closer to that game of basketball she's wanted with President Barack Obama.

Ayla Brown, the daughter of the freshman GOP senator and a CBS News special correspondent, took on Craig Robinson, the president's brother-in-law, for a segment Thursday morning on the "Early Show."

Brown (pictured here at right) and Robinson, the older brother of First Lady Michelle Obama, talked about his and the first lady's upbringing in Chicago, and the court on which Robinson, a former player for Princeton who now coaches Oregon State's team, first played the future president.

Sen. Brown has been angling for a game with his daughter, herself a former cager for the Boston College Eagles, and the president since having been elected in January. There's no word as to when that might go down.

If it does, though, Robinson had some advice for Ayla.

"You probably have him on the age, so you're going to have a little more stamina," Robinson said. "If he sticks with jump shots, I think you beat him. If he takes you down low, I think he beats you."

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The woman who beat Sarah Palin for the 1984 title of Miss Alaska is running for elected office.

Maryline Blackburn is expected to announce Thursday that she will challenge GOP state Rep. Rich Golick for Georgia's 34th district, according to the Atlanta Journal Constitution.

Blackburn was the first African-American contestant to represent Alaska in the 1984 Miss America pageant, but she has been living in Smyrna, Ga. for the past two decades. Sarah Palin finished in 2nd place behind Blackburn.

And despite their shared pageant past, Blackburn voted for President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden over Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Palin.

People magazine also reports that Blackburn, a Grammy-nominated singer, performed at two inaugural parties in 2009, one hosted by rapper Ludacris, and the other by Dionne Warwick.

The traffic jam that commuters experienced in upper Northwest D.C. Thursday morning was due to the pending arrival of President Barack Obama, who will speak at the funeral of civil rights leader Dorothy Height at the National Cathedral. 

Guests and security began arriving at the cathedral as early as 8 a.m. for the event, tying up commuter arteries around Massachusetts Avenue and Wisconsin Avenue, N.W.

Height was the longtime president of the National Council of Negro Women, and a recipient of the congressional gold medal. She died earlier this month at age 98.

According to the White House, First Lady Michelle Obama (shown here at the 2009 funeral of Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.)) will join the president for this event, making it a great opportunity for the first couple to drop in on daughter Malia at school; the campus of the Sidwell Friends School she attends is less than five blocks from the cathedral. The Obama's younger daughter, Sasha, also attends the Sidwell Friends School, but her campus is in Bethesda, Md.

Former President George W. Bush and his wife Laura Bush may have been poisoned at a 2007 summit, the former First Lady alleges in a new book.

Aided by doctors, the Secret Service performed a full-scale investigation into the mysterious illness, but they were ultimately unable to prove definitively that there had been foul play.

House Democrats recently replaced the doors to their Caucus Room in the basement of the Capitol.

The only trouble is, the new ones don't quite close.

According to an ITK tipster, there's a gap between the two wood paneled doors on each of the entries to the caucus room, which is "wide enough that anyone could see or hear in if they leaned up close."

Caucus meetings offer lawmakers the opportunity to speak frankly to each other, and they've been known to get heated. "The old doors had frosted glass on them, but you couldn't see or hear anything that people said," the tipster told ITK. "Now it's just a matter of time before someone overhears something they shouldn't."

Luckily for members of Congress (and less so, for reporters), a spokeswoman for the Architect of the Capitol's office told ITK that weather stripping has already been ordered for the doors, and will arrive next week.

Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.), who made pains to distance himself from his "Saturday Night Live" persona during his 2008 Senate run, will host a fundraiser with several fellow SNL alums in Los Angeles this weekend.

Slated to appear, according to the Minneapolis Star Tribune, are Dan Aykroyd, Dana Carvey and Kevin Nealon.

A cocktail and dinner reception for big donors will be held before another, less expensive reception. The events will benefit both Franken's 2014 reelection campaign and his leadership PAC.

Franken held a fundraiser in Minneapolis recently featuring a current SNL cast member, Seth Meyers.

If you've been hankering to meet President Barack Obama, but can't afford the tickets to big fundraisers, this might be your chance.

If you sign up at the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) website anytime between now and Monday, you could find yourself at a reception and dinner with President Barack Obama and Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).

Pelosi announced the raffle in a fundraising letter for the DCCC that went out on Wednesday. "Since America's progress would not be possible without Grassroots Democrats like you, I wanted to give you and a guest the opportunity to have dinner with myself and President Obama the evening of May 13th in New York City," she wrote.

The winner will meet Obama during a reception, and be allowed to bring one guest to the large DCCC fundraising dinner, although they won't be seated with the president.

According to contest rules, winners must be U.S. citizens and not registered lobbyists.

Good luck!