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Do you know the facts behind Arizona's immigration law? Take our quiz.
Arizona’s tough immigration enforcement law was designed to convince illegal immigrants to pack up and go home. The measure sparked protests and boycotts against the state, and prompted the Obama administration to ask the courts to block the statute. On April 25, the legal battle arrives at the US Supreme Court, in a showdown that pits the federal government’s exclusive power to regulate immigration against a state government’s authority to police its sovereign territory.
1. What is federal preemption?
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An unreliable form of birth control used by bureaucrats in Washington. |
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It is what happens immediately before federal “emption.” |
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A legal doctrine that declares federal law to be the supreme law of the land, and recognizes that federal law trumps conflicting state laws. |
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What US soldiers did when called upon to assist racial integration at Little Rock Central High School in 1957. |
