Arizona's Immigration Law Heads to the Supreme Court

"As long as there is not a direct conflict, which the federal government did not do a very good job of pointing to today, the Arizona law gets to stand under the Preemption Doctrine," says Reason's Damon Root, who was at the Supreme Court during Wednesday's oral arguments surrounding Arizona's controversial immigration law. "The federal government is saying that 'we have the power to stomp out all of the state experiments in immigration law enforcement.'"

Much like the Health Care arguments before the Court in March, Root does not see this as a good day for the Obama administration, in part due to Solicitor General Donald Verrilli's poor performance. "At one point," Root explains "Justice Sotomayor interrupted [Verrilli] and said "look I am terribly confused by what you are saying."

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[cjbos81]

Illegals out! Out!

Get out of America!

Get out! Go!

[cantina4celly]

Latino Americans for legal immigration!

[patrick black]

wtf ..your illegal..why would you have a case..when your breaking the law in the first place..how dumb ..racial profile all you want ..if the shoe fits....hope you get them all

[cantina4celly]

Dipshit who skipped history class below me.

[trifulquita15]

english americans are NOT legal immigrants... ask the mexicans, cherokees, sioux

Los Angeles sounds like a ENGLISH NAME? LOL

[Cpillin425]

Fuck all you burger muching, pizza guzzling gringer motherfuckers. Dirty ass motherfuckers, you don''t even take showers and wash your fucking teeth...and you want to take Mexicans out your country which are much cleaner than you, fuck all you fat pigs.

[britney1456789]

hunny this is not about being mexican, i love how you liberals always pull the race card. THIS IS ABOUT ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS WHICH DON'T RESPECT OUR LAWS...LEGAL IMMIGRATION IS THE WAY TO GO. TYPICAL LIBERAL

[Biggerbyte]

You illegals make me sick. Whites, as you put it, have been working the hard jobs for years with no help from you. This country survived, thank you, and the American system flourished. You all come along and take those jobs away, causing unemployment and government debt to skyrocket. I guess you think your stay here is not costly. Get legal, get paid fair wages, learn to speak English, and pay taxes like the rest of us. Otherwise... GET OUT..

[Claudia Mariela]

who's next?? huh. who are yall gonna kick out next??

[musicDUDE76bvbArmy]

here we fuking go again if this doesnt stop there will be a civil war again and let me tell you something if mexicans ever leave the US the USA would be fuked up i bet you it will

[MrBrown1302]

yea right, i didn't expect you would imbecile.