This seemed like a huge bluff to me when I first heard it, and I fully expect the White House to lose their case. It is obvious that they think they are so smart in the law that they can simply overthrow anything they set their minds to (of which they disagree with – screw all else, like what the Constitution says), and/or they are too arrogant to back down.

The evidence is that they have regrouped from the obvious loser of contending the law is a breach of Civil Rights, and have focused on a different avenue, equally a loser, of pre-emption of federal law. It is evidence because they made all that hoopla about Civil Rights, and then, without ever implementing that first course, they come out with pre-emption instead. It shows an ulterior motive was at play the whole time. Decrying the breach of Civil Rights was not the reason at all, but a partisan knee-jerk.

However, it is safe to assume that it is the lawyer’s choice of attack for what must be vague and thin lines in protocol for the particular situation. Perhaps, they figure some sort of default will necessarily fall towards the federal government, and be the best way to W-I-N. Yea, transparency, hope and change, and all that crap.

Oh, and it just dawned on me, because they obviously must know that they have a poor case, it must be for the gesture of it all, too. To consolidate all the illegal-immigrant, nation-of-men loving Latino votes (my apologies to Latinos who do not put ethnicity over America’s rights as a nation). The gesture is, “we tried, we fought for you. Keep us in and we’ll get there.” And it probably is better that they lose, for their ends, because it will put blacks at ease about having to contend with illegals, all the more, for jobs.