As usual, all you have to read to understand a supreme court decision is Linda Greenhouse D-Day.
I read through the decision and the three dissents (though evidently backwards). It wasn't particularly compelling. It's rather dry and Kennedy I find to be a particularly dull writer. As a layman, I found it easy to agree with all the arguments both pro and con, so no, no one really won me over. But it's clear, federalism won and states rights lost.
Well there's also this from SCOTUSblog, What now, Arizona? "Shortly after the Supreme Court rendered its judgment on the Arizona immigration law, S.B. 1070, unanimously upholding the most controversial aspect of the law, the Obama Administration revoked existing Section 287(g) agreements with seven Arizona law enforcement agencies. This pettiness – the Administration behaved like a child who, after not getting his way, took his toys and went home – is unbecoming of a President whose constitutional duty includes the obligation “to take care that the laws be faithfully executed,” but it was made possible by the other aspects of the Court’s holding."
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