Is Obama playing immigration politics with Arizona?

It sure looks that way.

He's trying to get SCOTUS to overturn the state's theoretically powerful, but almost never enforced, law that lets the state yank business licenses of companies that knowingly employ illegal immigrants.

That despite the fact it relies on an express Congressional 'loophole' from 1986 and was upheld by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

That all said, somebody should ask immigration law fearmonger Kris Kobach, who authored SB1710 for the Arizona Lege, why the state isn't enforcing it.