[SmithL]

rejecting arguments that states have no role in immigration matters.

That should open the floodgates!

[piperpilot]

Is this not HUGE?!?!?!?!

[Dilbert San Diego]

So if the Court is rejecting arguments that states have no role in immigration policy or enforcement, that could bode well for when the Supremes have to rule on the Arizona immigration law. The liberals will explode if the Supreme Court would uphold the immigration law.

[Tennessee Nana]

10th Amendment PING

[HOYA97]

Can we get this in breaking news?

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

This is a double home run for AZ, because the feds are challenging SB 1070, their new immigration law, “on the grounds that it pre-empts federal authority.”

This means that unless the feds change their argument about SB 1070, the Supreme Court will find the same way for it.

[Chandalier]

Most excellent news!

[PapaBear3625]

Arguments at scotusblog.com.

[markomalley]

w00t!

[Jeff Chandler]

>>

Chief Justice John Roberts, writing for a majority made up of Republican-appointed justices, said the Arizona’s employer sanctions law “falls well within the confines of the authority Congress chose to leave to the states.”

Justices Stephen Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor, all Democratic appointees, dissented. The fourth Democratic appointee, Justice Elena Kagan, did not participate in the case because she worked on it while serving as President Barack Obama’s solicitor general

[Iron Munro]

Kagan was recused.

Kennedy voted with the majority (must have been caught sleeping)

[FourPeas]

I can hardly wait to hear Barry’s snide comments about this decision.

[kabar]

Outstanding. This will set off a wave of states passing mandatory E-Verify laws and revoking the business licenses of firms that violate the law. This is huge.

[apillar]

Ruh Roh! If the reporting on this decision is correct, this is a big one, the Supreme Court just ruled that States DO have a say in immigration policy and it isn't exclusivly a federal matter. By this precedent pretty much every pending anti-illegal peice of legislation should be upheld. The Obama folks must be going ballistic, I wonder if the Supreme Court is in for another lecture at the state of the union speech this year?

Knowing Obama though, when he gets slapped down by another branch of Government he attempts to bully to get his way. I wouldn't be surprised if he didn't try the "executive order amnesty" that the hard core pro-illegals have been pushing.

[Liberty Valance]

I am encouraged by this ruling...
No wonder the Palins bought a winter home in Arizona.

We send our sincere congratulations to the citizens of Arizona and the much-maligned, very brave Governor, Jan Brewer!

[HiJinx]

Ping!

Probably bodes well for AZ SB1070...

[Will88]

Employers "will hesitate to hire those they fear will turn out to lack the right to work in the United States," he said.

Well, duh, that is precisely the point, Justice Breyer.

Breyer said the Arizona law upsets a balance in federal law between dissuading employers from hiring illegal workers and ensuring that people are not discriminated against because they may speak with an accent or look like they might be immigrants.

Total leftist garbage and Breyer should be ashamed of himself for making such a stupid statement, but I'm sure he isn't. But any citizen of the US, and any legal resident, has documents readily available or obtainable to prove their eligibility to work in the US. (And any few who don't can obtain such documents with reasonable effort.)

[Lmo56]

The applicable federal law is the Immigration Reform Control Act [IRCA] of 1986 ...

[newzjunkey]

Employers "will hesitate to hire those they fear will turn out to lack the right to work in the United States," (Breyer) said.

And that's a good thing, Justice Breyer. With e-verify, employers will know one way or the other.

[La Lydia]

In the mid-90s, I was at a congressional hearing on immigration and met an INS agent who told me he was one of the two workplace enforcement agents for California, Nevada and Arizona.