President Obama with SB 1070 architect Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer On Monday, the Supreme Court is likely to hand down its decision in Arizona v. United States, Arizona's infamous SB 1070 "papers, please" law, which the Court heard (PDF) earlier this year. The law empowered and required Arizona law enforcement officials to check whether persons were properly documented to be in the United States if such officials had a reasonable basis to believe a person was not legally in the United States. While the obvious problem with this law is that reasonable suspicion would almost certainly be based on apparent ethnicity, the legal issue the Court has been asked to decide is whether Arizona's law is preempted by federal immigration policy. The United States has expressly decided to not urge that SB 1070 is an equal protection violation. Read about preemption here. (Continue reading below the fold)
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