There is simply no delicate, nice way to put this: Attorney General Eric Holder is lying.

On the CBS show “Face the Nation” this past Sunday, Holder said it is “not true at all” that the Department of Justice’s lawsuit against Arizona’s SB 1070 is politically motivated. Then Holder tried to take the constitutional high road, claiming that the Arizona law allowing local police to inquire about the immigration status of those reasonably suspected of being illegal immigrants is “inconsistent with our federal Constitution.”