The aftermath.. or is it?

On Wednesday, Federal Judge Susan Bolton put a temporary injuction on parts of Arizona's SB1070. One of the provisions she messed with was the requirement for all law enforcement officers to check the immigration status of everyone they have detained for a criminal reason. Now, while on the surface this seems like she knocked it out the running but officers can still voluntarily check the status of their detainees, providing they weren't stopped due to racial profiling and they have reasonable cause to believe they're here illegally. A lot of people argue that this last statement is a gambit. Well it isn't, if you've ever worked in law enforcement. It's common sense. We all have to carry ID on us. If you don't, an officer can still look you up to see if you have a driver's license or state ID card. If the information you're giving them doesn't add up, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out they're hiding something.
One of the other provisions she struck down really does piss me off, though. She struck down the article that all immigrants have to carry their papers. This has been federal law since 1940! I have to carry my driver's license or get a citation. Why is it that immigrants don't in AZ? This has taken the equal protection rule waaay out of line. If the actual American citizens of AZ have to carry their DL, and the legal immigrants know they have to carry their green card according to federal law already in place, why on earth would you throw that out of the provisions? AZ isn't doing anything that isn't already law. Law enforcement has the power to put people on immigration holds already due to a law signed by former president Clinton.
AZ filed an appeal to the ruling yesterday, although the fastest it could get to the 9th Circuit would be 6 months from now, with a miracle. I suggest AZ sue the federal government for not only not doing their job but preventing AZ from keeping their citizens safe.
However, even though Judge Bolton did what she did, it didn't prevent jackasses from tying up traffic in downtown LA for 5 hours. I feel bad for the LAPD having to put on their kid gloves in dealing with those people, who brought along their lawyers for the protest. Thank you protesters! Keep doing what you're doing, because you're winning any fans to your cause by ticking everyone else off.