Posted on 03/30/2017 7:09:31 AM PDT by ColdOne
The city of Seattle on Wednesday announced a federal lawsuit over the Trump administration's threat to withhold federal grants to so-called "sanctuary cities," citing the 10th Amendment that deals with states' rights.
"Apparently the Trump administration, their war on facts, has now become a war on cities," Seattle Mayor Ed Murray said. He said the goal of the suit is to have a judge declare the order unconstitutional.
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Of course they’ll find a judge to say up is down, black is white, the world is flat, etc.
But _this_ time Trump should ignore while he fights in court.
“Budgets” are proposed by President! Congress disposes!
If either the Congress OR the President decides NOT to fund something, then the damned black robes can suck it.
This judicial legislation has to stop, period. Shakespeare (oft misinterpreted, BTW) had it wrong. It wasn’t the lawyers!
you can sue for something that hasn’t happened ?
The courts should toss this as “not ripe”.
There is only one way to respond to a Petulant whiney child. A Major Timeout. Show up with Federal Grand Jury Indictments for Conspiracy to Violate Immigration Laws, Handcuffs, and an Orange Jumpsuit.
What is unconstitutional about withholding federal funding? That is not a power delegated to the state. Further, the case can (and had been) made, that the federal government is responsible for immigration - i.e. the power is NOT delegated to the state. If it were, the state would not need to declare a sanctuary ...
NOW the snowflakes worry about “states’ rights”.
Isn’t that what was behind the secession of the Confederate States from the Union? Have they learned NOTHING?
Not at all sure this is the hook they should be hanging their assertions from. Sounds a LOT like the South ending up defending the institution of slavery, which after all started out as “states’ rights”.
Collecting your winnings before you even buy the Lotto ticket ?
Seattle Mayor Ed Murray belongs in jail.
Any lawyer please chime in but if some judge says the states can break the if/then construct of a Federal grant, how would that mesh with Brown v Board of Education?
With the sanctuary cities, aren’t they in a way trying to reestablish “separate but equal” on their terms?
Don’t think that Seattle can claim that they can show actual damage at this point.
Naturally they filed in a region covered by the 9th circus court.
The asshat judge in Hawaii did exactly that with Trump's immigration order. He decided not based on law but by reading Trump's mind and predicting his intent.
The silver lining is that a ruling like this would put TREMENDOUS pressure on Mitch to go nuclear on Gorsuch if required.
“This judicial legislation has to stop, period. Shakespeare (oft misinterpreted, BTW) had it wrong. It wasn’t the lawyers!”
No, Shakespeare was right. Judges all ARE lawyers in robes.
But a special, more critically dire case, IMO :0) They deserve special attention.
Please!!! Just hold the cities responsible for any murders that take place by illegals that they shielded.
Well, there you go, a surefire way to defeat all the forced speed limits and sin laws that have been forced on states, it is unconstitutional to make funding conditional... Amazing how this discovery only comes when it benefits liberals and not when rural states were fighting 55 mph national speed limits...
But wait, didn’t they fight that, and wasn’t a whole lot of precedent set during those fights? Same with national drinking age limits tied to federal highway funds?
I almost hope that Seattle finds their easy judge and it opens a whole big can of worms that can be used as leverage to undo big city liberal limits on freedom.
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