In 2010 the Italian Constitutional Court confirmed most of its recent jurisprudential trends. In some cases the Court dealt with totally new issues (i.e. same sex marriage and affirmative actions in electoral laws), but its most significant pronouncements were not characterized by unexpected overrulings. The Court was frequently involved in the field of constitutional compatibility of laws on immigration from various point of views: not only the protection of civil rights, but also the division of competences between the State and Regions. In this latter field the Court's role was particularly worthy of attention.