Los Angeles Times, October 31, 2010 by Maura Dolan
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/oct/31/local/la-me-arizona-law-20101031
“These are three judges who I think are pretty much in the judicial mainstream,” said UC Berkeley constitutional law professor Jesse Choper. He predicted that Arizona would have a “relatively steep, uphill battle” because the federal government is given “exclusive power for immigration and naturalization.” The 9th Circuit and even the U.S. Supreme Court would probably be swayed by the federal government’s contention that the Arizona law “improperly interferes with federal foreign policy,” he said.