Court signals backing for Arizona immigration law

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Source: San Francisco Chronicle

(11-01) 16:14 PST SAN FRANCISCO -- A federal appeals court appeared willing Monday to reinstate, but weaken, a central provision of an Arizona law allowing police to stop and question suspected illegal immigrants.

A three-judge panel of the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals indicated that it would authorize police to demand papers from those they reasonably suspected of being in the country illegally, but would not allow authorities to arrest or prosecute them under state law.

That would still allow suspects to be referred to U.S. authorities for deportation, however.

At an hour-long hearing in a packed San Francisco courtroom, two panel members suggested that a federal judge had gone too far when she blocked enforcement of all major provisions of the law.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/11/01/BADP1G54K0.DTL

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This is reasonable. State law can't supersede federal law but can assist. Thing is: can "reasonable suspicion" be defined constitutionally?

[dennis4868]

1. dont tell me that the ....

three-judge panel are all conservatives....WTF is wrong with this country...there used to be a time when you could rely on the courts to get things right even if the judges were conservative....now everything is so damn political....I think Stewart needs a rally to bring back sanity to the courts.....

[alp227]

2. Two of the judges=R, one=D.

Carlos Bea=Bush 43
John Noonan=Reagan
Richard Paez=Clinton

Bea is a Cuban immigrant of Spanish descent. Paez is of Mexican descent. (Source: Wikipedia)