Patterico at Patterico's Pontifications ("Harangues that Just Make Sense") looked a the Arizona immigration law case before the Supreme Court.
Money quote(s):
"The issue, as I see it, is whether Arizona is authorized to empower local law enforcement to carry out federal immigration law, or whether President Obama gets to say: hey, I am the decider of what laws we’re going to enforce around here."
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"(Y)ou should read “federal law enforcement priorities” as code for “Obama’s decision not to fully enforce immigration laws.” He is the president, dammit, and he doesn’t want his nullification of Congress’s laws to be nullified."
There are good reasons this has gone all the way to the Supreme Court, after all.
"Congress has passed laws and expects them to be enforced. Obama surely has discretion, but that discretion should not extend to non-enforcement. And that is what he seems to seek: the ability not to enforce federal immigration law." (Emphasis in original text. - CAA.)
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