Fed Judge in AZ Case: "You're Kidding, Right?"

Well, that's not exactly what Justice Noonan said.

But it's close.

“I’ve read your brief, I’ve read the District Court opinion, I’ve heard your interchange with my two colleagues, and I don’t understand your argument,” Noonan told deputy solicitor general Edwin S. Kneedler. “We are dependent as a court on counsel being responsive. . . . You keep saying the problem is that a state officer is told to do something. That’s not a matter of preemption. . . . I would think the proper thing to do is to concede that this is a point where you don’t have an argument.”

But hey! It's only taxpayer money.

HT: Malkin