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• AZ: Arizona's immigration law gets its day in U.S. Supreme Court
  When Paul Clement walks into the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday he's going to try to convince at least five justices that Arizona has an inherent right to enforce federal immigration laws.
  
  
• AL: Alabama immigration bill to have language removed on questioning passengers, GOP says
  Top Alabama Republicans said they plan to remove controversial language from an immigration bill that says police officers, under certain circumstances, can question and possibly detain car passengers they suspect of being illegal immigrants.
  
  
• AZ: Arizona immigration law - Supreme Court again examines federal power
  The Supreme Court will conclude one of its most significant and controversial terms in decades by taking on one more issue that has divided the nation: Arizona's crackdown on illegal immigrants.
  
  
• AZ: Brewer refuses Pearce's request for seat at SB 1070 Supreme Court hearing
  The U.S. Supreme Court could end of taking up the legality of Arizona's SB 1070 immigration law on Wednesday without its author in the audience.
  
  
• AZ: Governor overhauls Arizona's clemency board
  Gov. Jan Brewer has overhauled Arizona's five-member board that often is the last chance for death-row inmates to seek mercy, a move that comes with the state on pace for one of its busiest years for executions.
  
  
• AZ: State Supreme Court reaffirms that governor shouldn't have fired redistricting chair
  Rebuffing Gov. Jan Brewer and Senate leadership, the Arizona Supreme Court on Friday reaffirmed its role as arbiter of legal and constitutional questions.
  
  
• CO: Hickenlooper signs 'direct file' into law that limits charging juveniles as adults
  Gov. John Hickenlooper on Friday signed a bill into law to dramatically curb prosecutors' ability to charge juveniles as adults through the state's longstanding "direct file" system.
  
  
• DE: How Delaware got rare execution drug
  Just days before a manufacturer cracked down on the use of a key execution drug last year, Delaware was able to get a shipment of the sedative from one of the drugmaker's suppliers through a complicated and secretive procurement process.
  
  
• KS: Judicial officials to reconsider closings after assurances from legislators who say they don't understand how courts couldn't trust them to provide funding
  The Kansas Supreme Court said Friday it will reconsider future court closings and employee furloughs after key legislators promised that the judicial branch would receive funding to cover a revenue shortfall.
  
  
• MA: 3 Mass. ERs cited for denial of care
  Health officials cited three Massachusetts hospitals in the past six months for wrongly sending away patients from their emergency rooms, in one case resulting in the death of a patient while en route to another facility.