JURIST - Paper Chase: ABA files second brief against Arizona immigration law
Monday, July 19, 2010ABA files second brief against Arizona immigration law Dwyer Arce at 11:04 AM ET
[JURIST] The American Bar Association (ABA) [official website] has filed an amicus curiae brief [text, PDF] urging the US District Court for the District of Arizona [official website] to block enforcement of the state's controversial new immigration law [SB 1070 materials; JURIST news archive] before it takes effect July 29. The brief, filed in support of the US government, follows the submission of another amicus curiae brief [text, PDF; JURIST report] by the ABA earlier this month in a different case challenging the Arizona law filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) [advocacy website]. A revised version of that brief was also filed Wednesday, after the court requested that all supporting briefs conform to a ten-page limit. In the brief filed in support of the US, the ABA argues that the Arizona law violates the Supremacy Clause [Cornell LII backgrounder] of the US Constitution [text], an issue that has been of "considerable importance" to the ABA since 1983. The ABA specifically says the law should be ruled invalid because it necessarily interferes in a realm of policy that the Constitution places solely within federal jurisdiction, explaining:
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