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Arizona Immigration Law: Legal Path Is Blocked, So Political One Must Be Found

For those who support Arizona's controversial new immigration measure, there is very little in U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton's big ruling Wednesday that is encouraging. Yes, the veteran judge gave the state the go-ahead to proceed with some of its new ideas -- there was some tinkering of the human smuggling provision, for example, and it's now formally a crime in Arizona to pick up a day laborer in a car. And no, she didn't buy the Commerce Clause argument offered up by the Justice Department as a justification for blocking the law, pending a full judicial review. Bolton even helpfully ...

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