Now that the supreme court has approved the Arizona Immigration law that allows officers to check immigration?

[dureau]

of anyone who is detained and before release? Will Holder and his leader pursue more suits?

[chason58]

of anyone who is detained and before release? Will Holder and his leader pursue more suits?

Yes that's what it means. No Holder would be wasting his time pursuing more lawsuits since the US Supreme Court's decision would basically override any lower court's decision.

[han]

The supreme court threw out 3/4 of that law.

[bedyw25]

I will have to read the decision

[lintun]

looks like the start of a very bad week is in store for team obama........surprised he isn't on vacation, or at least on the golf course

[nickson]

MSNBC headline supreme court strikes down 3 of 4 provisions

Fox News headline supreme court upholds part of the law.

[lintun]

It's wrong.

[jamilah38]

I think you've pretty severely misread the case.

All provisions of the law that were considered were thrown out 5-3 (Kagen recused herself, since she worked on the case as solicitor general). The only provision that was challenged but not thrown out was the papers please provision, but that wasn't upheld either. Rather, it was not ripe for consideration because the Court found that it is possible to enforce it without violating the Constitution. They didn't deem that especially likely, nor did they say it was unlikely, but they gave a strict warning about the limits of the application. That provision has not gone into effect yet and the case before the Court was not primarily about it. There are other cases in the lower Courts that have been on hold that deal with this provision more directly. Most likely, those will be dismissed as being premature. Once the provision goes into effect, if it works as expected, it will be challenged and the issue will return to the Court where they will rule on that provision anew.

If you followed the case and listened to the oral arguments, as I did, this is pretty much what was expected. I suppose the solicitor general could have had a bigger win, but that was still a very big win for the Obama Administration today.


I am much more concerned, though, about the summary reversal 5-4 in American Tradition v. Montana.