Alabama Immigration Law - State Laws vs. Federal Laws

One of the major points of conflict in the writing and ratification of the Constitution is State's Rights vs. Federal Powers.  Whose laws are preeminent?  Did you think this issue was resovled way back in the 1780s?  Maybe you thought it wasn't resolved until after the Civil War?  Well, it's still not resolved!  The following Federal Court Case regarding Alabama's Immigration Law that they passed this week is a case in point.  This case may quickly wind up in the Supreme Court, and it may be one of the biggest Supreme Court Decisions in our lifetime.  Here is an excerpt from an article in the NY Times:

(Alabama students protesting the Federal Court's ruling)

A federal judge on Wednesday upheld most of the sections of Alabama’s far-reaching immigration law that had been challenged by the Obama administration, including portions that had been blocked in other states.
The decision, by Judge Sharon Lovelace Blackburn of Federal District Court in Birmingham, makes it much more likely that the fate of the recent flurry of state laws against illegal immigration will eventually be decided by the Supreme Court. It also means that Alabama now has by far the strictest such law of any state.  (Read the rest of the article HERE.)