On Friday, a coalition of civil rights and civil liberties organizations filed for an injunction so that Arizona’s SB1070 will not be active pending a final court ruling on its constitutionality. The organizations named in the suit include the American Civil Liberties Union, Mexican American Legal Defense Fund (MALDEF), the National Immigration Law Center (NILC), Asian Pacific American Legal Center (APALC) – a member of the Asian American Center for Advancing Justice, ACLU of Arizona, National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON) and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).

The request for an injunction comes after last month’s filing of a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of SB1070.

Pablo Alvarado, Executive Director of National Day Laborer Organizing Network said: ”

Arizona can’t pick and choose which portions of the United States Constitution to uphold. Federal law is very clear: Arizona can’t subordinate the rights of Mexican-Americans or those with Latino appearance and it certainly cannot rewrite federal immigration laws. Throughout history, when states have gone rogue and when they have unjustly and unlawfully scapegoated their residents, the court has had to intervene to be the ultimate defender of bedrock constitutional protections.”

I am not a legal expert and don’t know if there is a legal precedent for such and injunction to be granted pero it sounds like good idea to suspend the exercising of a law that legalizes racial while it’s legality is being challenged.