The Supreme Court justices won’t be weighing the merits of SB 1070, but rather the merits of the lower federal court judge’s decision to block parts of it from being enforced pending a constitutional challenge from the Obama administration

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This is not the Supreme Court judging Arizona, Latinos, Immigration, Russell Pearce, Jan Brewer or the GOP. This is passing judgements on previous decisions by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco.

The Certiorari is the order from the Supreme Court to the Ninth Circuit asking for the pertinent papers, those that are relevant to SB 1070.

My own opinion : If the Supreme Court decides everything in favor of Arizona then Federal Preemption is toast and there will be a great chaos and anarchy of state laws on the Human and the Divine.

I thought that the American Civil War established the supremacy of the Federal Government.




Southern California Public Radio
What the Supreme Court’s review of the SB 1070 case means
By Leslie Berestein Rojas
December 12, 2011


What the Supreme Court’s review of the SB 1070 case means


Some excerpts :

The federal lawsuit, filed in early July of last year as SB 1070 was set to take effect, asserts that immigration law is the domain of the federal government and that it pre-empts attempts by states to set their own immigration rules.

While the SB 1070 appeal won’t likely be heard in the high court until spring, how the justices rule could either encourage or put a halt to the flurry of state anti-illegal immigration laws that followed in its wake. In the last year, states that include Georgia, Alabama, South Carolina, Utah and Indiana have enacted their own versions of SB 1070.

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