In the meantime, the phrase, "Nice try" seems to be the sentiment of the courts. That’s what a judge seems to be saying in Arizona yesterday as she essentially blocks the core portion of the Arizona Immigration Law.

U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton is essentially saying that she feels the pain of Arizona, but they’re going about it the wrong way. So she has blocked one of the key provisions in the law, which makes it a crime to fail to apply for or carry alien registration papers or "for an unauthorized alien to solicit, apply for, or perform work,".

She also knocked down a provision "authorizing the warrantless arrest of a person" if there is reason to believe that person might be subject to deportation.

So now the legal battle will go to an Appeals Court in San Francisco. Good luck on that one. They are no doubt grounded in the same feeling the State of California has had towards Arizona: Punish them!

Today it’s becoming clear that the way that you THINK is being systematically attacked by the federal government. For example if a school can declare a student is not eligible to graduate certain classes because the student does not believe it is okay for a man and a man to be, you know, a couple, then dotted lines can be drawn on other ways of thinking. Like who should pay taxes, who should be given a pass. And you know…who should be allowed to be here illegally and who should not.

So the judge grants a preliminary injunction blocking the most controversial parts of the law a day before it was to take effect. So now police are not allowed to question people's immigration status if there is reason to believe they are in the country illegally.

Other parts of the law will go into effect Thursday as passed. This includes a ban on so-called sanctuary cities, and the criminalization of hiring day laborers who are in the country illegally. The parts of the law dealing with sanctions for employers who hire illegal immigrants also withstood the first legal test.

The Department of Justice is not gloating, yet they do see it as a victory. But here’s the deal: as congressmen fan out across this nation for re-election, they have to talk about it. And it’s true that more of the American people feel that the approach in Arizona was RIGHT…not wrong.

So one more time the Obama Administration appears to be on the minority side of an issue, but just like Healthcare they can find a way.

And what’s the reality about this situation is how a state legislature passed the law, and the law was essentially upholding federal law. That must mean that change is no longer really possible at the state level. It has to happen at the national level.

As Sarah Palin said, “November is coming”.