AZ GOV. BREWER DECIDES TO TAKE IMMIGRATION APPEAL TO SUPREME COURT

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The Blaze:

PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer announced Monday she will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a ruling that put the most controversial parts of the state’s immigration enforcement law on hold.

The planned appeal to the high court comes after Brewer lost an appeal April 11, when a three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals refused to reverse a lower court’s order that prevented key parts of the law from being enforced.

The panel said federal officials were likely to prove the law is unconstitutional and succeed in their argument that Congress has given the federal government sole authority to enforce immigration laws.

Brewer‘s lawyers argued the federal government hasn’t effectively enforced immigration law at the border and in Arizona‘s interior and that the state’s intent in passing the law was to assist federal authorities as Congress has encouraged.