There is a definition of the Yiddish term chutzpah that says it's the child who murders his parents and then begs for mercy from the courts on the grounds that he's an orphan. But our Attorney General, Eric Holder, has set a new standard for chutzpah. The reason given for the federal government's suit against Arizona, is that the Arizona law will interfere with the federal government's ability to enforce existing immigration law. Notice that they don't claim that it interferes with any attempt to enforce the law, just their ability to enforce it. This is sneaky clever because as everybody knows the federal government makes no effort whatsoever to enforce the laws, purposely looking the other way as hundreds of thousands (half a million by most estimates) illegal aliens invade Arizona and it's infrastucture. Arizonians have to bear the burden of those half a million people in their schools, emergency rooms and use of public services. The federal government has refused to help or even address the matter. Now they're trying to prevent the state from addressing it themselves with the claim that Arizona's efforts are interfereing with the non-effort from the federal government.
My understanding is that Arizona, in anticipation of just such a challenge, wrote their law so that it requires law enforcement to ask the federal government to verify the immigration status of any individual in question, because existing law REQUIRES the federal government to do just that when asked. So now the feds are, in effect, challenging their own statute. Eric and Obama are well aware of this (they are lawyers you know) but don't care how ridiculous this looks, this is politics. How else do you explain Holder's pledge to challenge this law in court, before he had even read it.
