Supreme Court Argument on 1070 Goes Well for Arizona, Badly for Obama

You know President Obama’s on shaky ground when the left-stream media’s champion, the New York Times, says Supreme Court justices seem sympathetic toArizona’s border enforcement law, SB 1070.NYT’s Adam Liptak wrote after today’s oral arguments on SB 1070 at the U.S. Supreme Court: “Justices across the ideological spectrum appeared inclined to uphold a controversial part of Arizona’s aggressive 2010 immigration law, based on their questions on Wednesday at a Supreme Court argument.To arrive at that conclusion, Liptak only had to listen to one of Obama’s left-wing Court appointees:“You can see it’s not selling very well,” Justice Sonia Sotomayor said of a central part of the argument made by Obama’s Solicitor General Donald Verrilli Jr. ““Why don’t you try to come up with something else?”The Drudge Report posted a huge headline Mr. Verrilli will not be saving for his scrapbook. It declared Obama’s lawyer had laid another egg in the Supreme Court, as he did last month arguing for Obamacare: “Obama’s Lawyer Chokes Again.”The Washington Times’ Stephen Dinan reported: "Supreme Cour" justices took a dim view of the Obama Administration's claim that it can stopArizona from enforcing immigration laws, telling government lawyers during oral argument Wednesday that the state appears to want to push federal officials, not conflict with them.”The bias showed in the reporting by left-stream media Associated Press: “Verrilli did not mention Wednesday that the administration has deported nearly 400,000 people a year, far more than previous administrations, although the information was included in written submissions to the court.” Perhaps the AP regrets not assisting Verrilli prepare for orals.Chief Justice John Roberts joined with colleagues who took issue with Verrilli's remarks on theArizonalaw, noting the state only wants to inform federal authorities when it apprehends illegal aliens. "It seems to me that the federal government just doesn't want to know who's here illegally and who's not," Roberts said.Gov. Jan Brewer, who signed SB 1070 into law, released this statement today:“Today, more than two years after I signed SB 1070 into law, the State of Arizona had its opportunity to defend this measure before the United States Supreme Court. Many people never gave us a chance to get this far, and it is only due to the continuing support and encouragement of the American people that it was possible."Of course, we likely will not know the Court's decision for weeks. But I am filled with optimism – the kind that comes with knowing thatArizona's cause is just and its course is true."On the day I signed SB 1070, I called it ‘another tool for our state to use as we work to solve a crisis we did not create and the federal government has refused to fix.’ Those words still hold true – as I was reminded last week when I returned to the border to visit law enforcement and ranchers who live and work in southeasternArizona.”Their message: The job of securing the border is not done, not so long as drugs and humans continue to be smuggled north in large numbers at the direction of violent cartels and armed gangs. As Governor, I have a duty to uphold the Constitution and a responsibility to protect the people ofArizona. With SB 1070, I am confident we can do both.”Unbelievably, left-wing JusticeElena Kagan recused herself from the case. She refused to demonstrate the same integrity last month in the Obamacare oral arguments.Thank you for reading! Tell your friends to bookmark The Arizona Conservative. We're scooping other blogs and providing the best coverage on 1070, Obamacare, elections and other top-of-mind topics to Arizonans.