The Supreme Court has added another hot-button issue to its docket this term, agreeing today to hear a challenge to Arizona’s strict immigration law.

The case will be argued sometime this spring, and Justice Elena Kagan will take no part in the decision, presumably because she dealt with the issue in her previous job as solicitor General of the Obama administration.

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Arizona’s immigration law was passed in April of 2010, and was immediately challenged by the Obama administration. The administration argued that the state law interferes with existing federal law.

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Lower courts sided with the Obama administration and blocked several key provisions of the law from going into effect.