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Arizona Immigration Law's Supreme Court Oral Argument Set For April


HuffingtonPost
Mike Sacks


The Supreme Court announced Friday that it will hear oral arguments over Arizona's controversial immigration law on April 25, the Court's final day of hearings for the term.

The case, Arizona vs. United States, tests states' abilities to pass their own immigration measures in an area of the law typically reserved for the federal government. The state of Arizona is seeking to reverse a ruling by U.S. Court of Appeals of the Ninth Circuit.

The Supreme Court agreed to take the case in December, raising the stakes of an already-high profile term that will include a three-day challenge to the Affordable Care Act in March. Both cases will likely be decided at the end of the term in late June, just in time to impact the 2012 presidential election.

Lower courts blocked four sections of Arizona's S.B. 1070 from coming into effect, including the provision that allows the police to check the immigration status of anyone who has been arrested, stopped or detained whom an officer reasonably suspects to be in the country illegally.

Arizona believes that S.B. 1070 is a lawful supplement to, rather than unconstitutional invasion of, the federal government's comprehensive immigration laws.

How the Supreme Court rules will likely affect similar laws in Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, Indiana and Utah.
Justice Elena Kagan recused herself from the case, presumably because of her involvement as solicitor general when the United States decided to bring suit against Arizona in 2010.

More background on the Arizona vs. United States from The Huffington Post is available here.

Source: Arizona Immigration Law's Supreme Court Oral Argument Set For April

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Hearing Set on Arizona Immigration Law

Updated: Friday, 03 Feb 2012, 3:20 PM MST
Published : Friday, 03 Feb 2012, 3:20 PM MST

PHOENIX (AP) - The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments on Arizona's immigration enforcement law on April 25, in the last such hearing of the high court's current term.

The court will review a federal appeals court decision that upheld a judge's ruling blocking key provisions of the Arizona law.

One of those provisions requires that police, while enforcing other laws, question a person's immigration status if officers have reasonable suspicion the person is in the country illegally.

Other blocked provisions would require immigrants to obtain or carry immigration registration papers and make it a state criminal offense for an illegal immigrant to seek work or hold a job.

The U.S. Justice Department sued to challenge the law after it was enacted in 2010.

Source: Hearing Set on Arizona Immigration Law

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