Good question. I think you’re right. Some judge or six will say that the Feds can’t withhold funds from sanctuary cities. The judiciary is way stacked against Trump. And I’m inclined to think he doesn’t have nearly enough of his team in place to adequately fight them all in court. It’s gonna be one helluva slog.
I thought I could stop asking this for at least the next four years, but...is it time to start shootin’ ‘em yet?
He is waiting for that 5th USSC Justice!
There actually is a legitimate question about how much federal funding can be withheld from sanctuary cities. The original Obamacare statute would have withheld all Medicaid funding from states that didn't expand Medicaid in accordance with Obamacare; the Supreme Court, in the same decision that upheld the constitutionality of the individual mandate, struck down that portion of the statute on the grounds that it was too "coercive" of state governments.