McConnell Says Politics Behind U.S. Immigration Suit
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President Barack Obama’s lawsuit challenging Arizona’s immigration law was a “blatant political move” to help his re-election, Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said in an interview.
The lawsuit filed by the U.S. Justice Department “was more designed to help him in 2012 than it was to benefit the Democrats” in the 2010 midterm elections, McConnell said today in an interview in Washington.