Tomorrow, the Supreme Court will hear arguments for United States v. Arizona, the Justice Department’s challenge to SB 1070.

SB 1070 is Arizona’s controversial anti-immigrant law. After the law passed in 2010, two dozen copycat bills were introduced in state legislatures across the country; five passed in Alabama, Georgia, Indiana, South Carolina and Utah. The ACLU and a coalition of civil rights organizations have filed lawsuits in all six states.

Maine was one of the states that introduced a copycat bill last in the legislature last year.  That bill, LD 1496, was defeated.