Memo Complicates Challenge To AZ Law

Sweetness and Light "In the legal battle over Arizona’s new immigration law, an ironic subtext has emerged: whether a Bush-era legal opinion complicates a potential Obama administration lawsuit against Arizona. "

"The document, written in 2002 by the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, concluded that state police officers have "inherent power" to arrest undocumented immigrants for violating federal law. It was issued by Jay S. Bybee, who also helped write controversial memos from the same era that sanctioned harsh interrogation of terrorism suspects."

Emphasis added to point out the guilt-by-association demagoguery technique. How subtle.