Giddy up.
WASHINGTON (CBS/AP) — The Supreme Court has agreed to decide a case involving Arizona’s controversial anti-illegal immigration law, S.B. 1070.
Arizona has asked the justices to allow the state to begin enforcing measures that have been blocked by lower courts at the Obama administration’s request. Among those provisions is one that requires police, while enforcing other laws, to question a person’s immigration status if officers suspect he is in the country illegally.
On Monday the court announced it would decide Arizona v. United States, the S.B. 1070 case. Justice Elena Kagan will be recused, presumably due to her work in the Obama Administration as Solicitor General.
The Obama administration is waging a furious legal fight against a patchwork of state laws targeting illegal immigrants. Laws similar to Arizona’s — in Alabama, South Carolina and Utah — also are facing administration lawsuits. Private groups are suing over immigration measures adopted in Georgia and Indiana.