Arizona Immigration Lawsuit Isn't Political, Holder Says — Right. That's Why He May Launch Racial Profiling Suit As Well...

Two stories out simultaneously that ought to be good for a laugh or two.

At Bloomberg, "Arizona Immigration Lawsuit Isn't Political, U.S. Attorney General Says." But then at Fox News, "Holder Floats Possibility of Racial Profiling Suit Against Arizona."

Attorney General Eric Holder, just days after filing a federal lawsuit against Arizona's immigration law, on Sunday floated the possibility of filing another suit on racial profiling grounds.

The lawsuit filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Arizona claimed the state was infringing on federal immigration responsibilities and urged the judge to prevent the law from going into effect at the end of July. Despite some officials' claims that the law could lead to racial profiling, that concern was not cited as grounds for the suit.

However, Holder said on CBS' "Face the Nation" that the federal government was leading with its "strongest" argument in the suit filed Tuesday and would not rule out a second suit months down the road -- if the law ends up going into effect.

"It doesn't mean that if the law for whatever reason happened to go into effect, that six months from now, a year from now, we might not look at the impact the law has had ... and see whether or not there has been that racial profiling impact," Holder said. "If that was the case, we would have the tools and we would bring suit on that basis."

Well, the law "goes into effect" in about 3 weeks, so no doubt Holder & Co. are looking to get maximum political mileage out of the litigation.

More analysis on this at Outside the Beltway (via Memeorandum). And here's this at Liberty Pundits:

Yet again, whitey-hating Holder affirms that the present Arizona law has zero Constitutional defects vis-a-vis discrimination of any kind, including racial. Now he is reduced to the pathetically weak threat that “You white people in Arizona better be-a careful in how you be implementing that law cuz I’sa be-a watchin!”

But compare to David Savage, "Arizona immigration law unlikely to survive federal lawsuit."