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AG Holder on Arizona and Guantanamo

By Jeralyn, Section Other Politics
Posted on Sun Jul 11, 2010 at 09:27:56 AM EST
Tags: Arizona SB 1070, Guantanamo, 9-11 defendants (all tags)
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Attorney General Eric Holder was at the Aspen Ideas Festival this week, where he was interviewed by CBS's Bob Schieffer for a segment of CBS Face the Nation that aired today.

There's not much new in his interviews. Basically, he said that the Arizona lawsuit is based on the pre-emption argument -- that the state law violates the Constitution's Supremacy Clause. The racial profiling argument was weaker because there's no evidence of it yet. He said down the road, should evidence develop that the law is resulting in racial profiling, the Government will have the tools to make the challenge. [More...]

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