http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/08/opinion/08thu1.html?hp

The Constitution Trumps Arizona

In the end of the first paragraph the article states "the government said in its lawsuit." Would it be better to actually list a name here as the source? Or do you think the source is off the record? Or is it a quote from a document?

Clearly positioned on the editorial page, the author's 2nd paragraph is laden with opinion.

In the third para, the Justice Department is listed as a source. Is this also rather vague? Seems like perhaps the writer is using this source to back up the opinion that follows ... there are no stats offfered to back up these theories.

Of course, I also have a problem with the racial profiling resulting from the Arizona law ... but I'm not sure I'm convinced by the rest of the list of reasons.

In case there was any doubt this was an opinion piece, the use of the word "fortunately" lets us know where the writer stands.

Any comments?