Edit: If Wasden Prevails, Idaho Loses

Idaho Attorney General Lawrence Wasden must have something better to do than trying to derail President Obama’s immigration policy. In joining 20 states suing the president, Wasden makes a legal point: Obama’s executive order freeing 5 million undocumented workers from the threat of deportation exceeds his constitutional authority. But why is that argument so compelling to a legal officer from a landlocked state located about 1,000 miles from the Mexican border? Of the original plaintiffs, only Texas Attorney General and Gov.-elect Greg Abbott hails from a border state. Idaho filed its brief sooner than Arizona — which came on board Thursday. Why is Obama’s policy more vexing to Utah than it is to California? Why is South Dakota going to court while New Mexico is not?/ Marty Trillhaase , Lewiston Tribune. More here.