I really think that Arizona will prevail on this one. They aren’t usurping the federal government. They are merely assisting in the capture of illegal aliens that the government has failed miserably to do.
Feds to claim pre-emption in fight against AZ immigration-enforcement law
By Ed Morrissey
The Department of Justice will file a lawsuit this week, perhaps as early as today, against Arizona to block its new immigration-enforcement law. They plan to use the weakest argument possible, that of pre-emption, which amounts to a surrender on the grounds that the Obama administration has claimed in the previous three months of debate:
The Justice Department has decided to file suit against Arizona on the grounds that the state’s new immigration law illegally intrudes on federal prerogatives, law enforcement sources said Monday.























