• Federal judge rules grant money can't be withheld from sanctuary cities
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https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/410149-california-judge-rules-against-sessionss-effort-to-hit-sanctuary A federal district court judge has ruled Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ conditions on grant funding to force so-called sanctuary cities to cooperate with immigration enforcement efforts as unconstitutional Judge William Orrick, of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, sided with the state of California and city of San Francisco in their lawsuit challenging the requirements in granting their request for summary judgment Friday. The conditions Sessions set in 2017 require sanctuary cities to give immigration officials access to their jails, notify U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials of the planned release of a detainee, and follow a law that prohibits state and local governments from restricting how much information is shared with the Department of Homeland Security. Orrick's decision was in agreement with every court that has looked at these issues. The judge said that the challenged conditions violate the separation of power and that the information-sharing law is unconstitutional. Orrick said he is following the lead of the district court in a similar challenge brought by the city of Chicago and is issuing a nationwide injunction to block the Justice Department from enforcing its requirement and the law. But he said he is putting that stay on hold until the Ninth Circuit addresses the issue on appeal. “Today’s ruling is a victory in our fight to protect the people of California," California Attorney General Xavier Becerra said in a statement Friday afternoon."We will continue to stand up to the Trump administration’s attempts to force our law enforcement into changing its policies and practices in ways that that would make us less safe.” Becerra's office noted that the ruling marks the attorney general's twenty-second legal victory against the Trump administration.
off to the newly packed scotus.
Then to be overidden 6/5 by 2022. Thinks Trump for killing the integrity of the courts.
Reminder: if and when this goes to SCOTIS, call your representatives and demand "justices" Gorsuch and Kavanaugh be recused from the case, they constitute a blatant conflict of interest.
Nothing requires a judge to recuse themselves, except keeping up the integrity of the courts.
actually they could hypathetically broaden the ethics laws to force scotus judges to follow the same rules as the lower court judges do. But that would require a democrat supermajority because the gop would never ever want them to do that or move immigration court into the actual justice system.
We still need to demand they be held responsible. The worst possible thing the American people can do right now is let scandal fatigue set in. We need to make these traitors fight for every inch or else they'll take everything.
There's nothing we can do to make them fight for it. They have control of every branch of government.
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