U.S. District Court Judge Susan R. Bolton has rendered her preliminary ruling, setting aside Arizona’s pending new immigration law the day before it was to take effect as the single most effective law written to stem illegal immigration in the nation. That is precisely why Judge Bolton, a Clinton appointee, ruled against the people of Arizona and came up with her irrational reasons for striking down major portions of the bill.

Judge Bolton went beyond precedents judges usually follow when they rule on the legality of legislation before it goes into effect. Precedence dictates that a judge should look at a pending law more favorably than one already in effect. Instead, she gutted the law and left Arizona defenseless against illegal aliens. In trying to justify her action, she ruled that the law was “likely to burden legally present aliens.â€