JOINING THE HOLDER/HILLARY HUMILIATION CLUB:

Supreme Court query puts Janet Napolitano on the spot (JOSH GERSTEIN, 11/6/09, Politico)

On Monday, the justices asked the Justice Department to provide its views on Arizona’s attempt to force employers to verify the immigration status of potential employees. The law being challenged in the cases was signed by Napolitano in 2007, when she was governor of Arizona.

Napolitano, who was a defendant in the litigation, has stated that she believes the law is constitutional, but business groups and immigration reform advocates generally in President Barack Obama’s camp are asking the Supreme Court to strike down the statute.

“It is awkward, given the fact that she signed the law,” said Glenn Hamer of the Arizona Chamber of Commerce and Industry, one of the organizations asking the Supreme Court to take up the issue. “It’s got to be a difficult situation for the administration.”

It's a function of his being a reactionary rather than of personal spite, but has any president since Nixon made a more consistent practice of embarrassing his own cabinet members by making them reverse themselves?

Posted by Orrin Judd at November 6, 2009 6:27 AM