DOJ to Arizona: We don't like your law

Story continues below ↓advertisement | your ad hereThe strong message that the Justice Department representatives delivered at the private meetings — first with Goddard, then with Brewer’s staff — left little doubt that the Obama administration is prepared to go to court if necessary in a bid to block the new law, which takes effect July 29…

Brewer, who is seeking re-election, later said in a statement that her legal team told the Justice Department officials that the law would be “vigorously defended all the way to the United States Supreme Court if necessary.”

The department officials, Brewer said, “were advised that I believe the federal government should use its legal resources to fight illegal immigration, not the state of Arizona.”