nr York. noncompliance with ederal immi- Sacramenw, romento and Vi _ iVart Yee from New onstrate that it f Thomas Fuller +-- reported _ Suit Against California Relies on a Court Case Won by Obama in 2012 tr. sac ..Sre•pfzera shacleee, a law profes- ses-et the Chzieersity of Tetras, said history was repeating itself, but backward. "The suit is modeled on the Marna administration's success- ful suit against Arizona," he said. But he added that "some of the key considerations are flipped." In the Arizona case, conserva- tives insisted that respect for state sovereignty required letting states play a leading role in con- trolling immigration within their borders. But Mr. Sessions, a long- time conservative himself, disa- vowed that position in his speech on Wednesday. "Immigration law is the province of the federal gov- ernment," he said. Justice Antonin Scalia, the con- servative jurist who died in 2016, took a different view of the Ari- zona case. In an impassioned par- tial dissent, he wrote that "it is easy to lose sight of the states' tra- ditional role in regulating immi- gration — and to overlook their sovereign prerogative to do so." There is no doubt that the Cali- fornia lawsuit is at odds with some of the Trump administration's usual positions. "It's a fascinating suit on a number of levels," Profes- sor Vladeck said, "not the least of aznalosous contexts, Cristina nearigoes, a law pro- at 'Yale said she detected political parallels between the two suits. "Both administrations claim that the state laws they challenge impermissibly interfere with the executive branch's ability to en- force the immigration laws," she said. "But both lawsuits are also clearly designed to take on visible and politically powerful local offi- cials whose vision of immigration policy conflicts with the presi- dent's and his supporters'." In a news conference on Wednesday, Xavier Becerra, the California attorney general, said he was rea