CNN —The legal battle over a controversial Texas immigration law could eventually give the Supreme Court a chance to revisit a historic ruling that largely struck down Arizona’s “show me your papers” law and reaffirmed the federal government’s “broad, undoubted power” over immigration.
“It would have been incredibly difficult for the 5th Circuit to let this law stand under existing Supreme Court precedent,” she said.
‘Show me your papers’ lawThe Arizona law is a high-profile example of what happens when states attempt to take immigration policy into their own hands.
Jan Brewer signed the Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act, known as SB 1070, into law in 2010.
The Supreme Court upheld the “show me your papers” part of the law and struck down the three other parts.
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