PHOENIX (AP) — A Wyoming man has given more than $1.5 million to help defend Arizona's controversial immigration enforcement measure in court.
The donation from Timothy Mellon of Saratoga brings to $3.6 million the total in donations to Gov. Jan Brewer's legal defense fund. Mellon could not immediately be reached for comment.
The latest legal bills released Thursday show Brewer's office has spent more than $440,000 for the first two months of defending the law.
The bills, obtained through a public records request by The Associated Press, are for work performed through June. They do not cover July hearings in federal court before a judge temporarily blocked enforcement of the law.
Civil rights groups and the U.S. Justice Department have sued to block the law.
