Newswise — “The Supreme Court oral argument in the case challenging Arizona's S.B. 1070 strongly indicates that the justices are inclined to leave the states with substantial authority to enforce federal immigration law — at least unless and until Congress more clearly expresses the view that it wishes the federal executive branch to play the exclusive role in this area.
“However the court rules on each of the challenged provisions, the most contentious issue will be unresolved for now, because the solicitor general told the chief justice that the federal government was not challenging S.B. 1070 on the ground that it would lead to racial or ethnic profiling.”
--Michael Dorf, constitutional law expert, former law clerk for Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy and professor of law at Cornell University
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