Posted on 11/30/2018 11:13:54 AM PST by yesthatjallen
A federal judge on Friday ruled against the Trump administration's move to withhold grant funding from law enforcement agencies of so-called sanctuary cities, saying it was illegal and unconstitutional.
Judge Edgardo Ramos, of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, said the government “did not have lawful authority” to make states alert federal agents when an undocumented immigrant is going to be released from state or local custody and allow federal agents to question immigrants in custody about their legal status in order for states and cities to receive funding.
In his ruling, Ramos blocked the government from enforcing those conditions on New York, New York City and the six states that also challenged the requirements: Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Virginia and Washington.
The challengers had asked Ramos to issue a nationwide injunction, but he said they had not shown that such a move was necessary to afford them relief. He also noted the scope of other district court decisions have been limited.
A district court judge for the Northern District of Illinois issued an injunction blocking the administration from enforcing the conditions nationwide in September 2017. The ruling was affirmed by the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, but the court later put its nationwide scope on hold pending a review by the court’s full panel of judges.
A district court in Philadelphia has blocked the administration from enforcing the condition on Philadelphia. The government has appealed that ruling to the Third Circuit. And a district court in California blocked the condition from being enforced on the city and county of San Francisco.
New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood called the court’s decision a major win.
“As we argued, local law enforcement has the right to decide how to meet their local public safety needs – and the Trump administration simply does not have the right to require state and local police to act as federal immigration agents,” she said. “The Trump administration’s attempt to withhold these vital funds was nothing more than a political attack at the expense of our public safety.”
Arrst the governor and all involved on conspiracy to over throw the government. Detain with no bail as flight risks Place them under miitary cntrol on a ship aat sea
Get Pelosi on the same charges
If you don’t overturn that precedent, they can’t take anything back.
Sorry, your honor, separation of powers prohibits your ruling from having any affect.
“If you don’t overturn that precedent, they can’t take anything back.”
You mean the courts have to give up the power they seized way back when? Good luck with that...
Like I said, the courts don’t make law, they can’t change the Constitution and they’re not the final arbiter of what is constitutional...They offer an opinion.
The other issue is in areas near the border local and state law enforcement is actually given federal money for assisting with border enforcement issues. So is the federal government to pay them for not assisting when they don’t help due to sanctuary status?
Another damned OBAMA JUDGE! “...He joined the court in 2011 after a nomination from Barack Obama...
So by your own logic sanctuary cities have every right to ignore immigration law because they don’t agree with it.
What’s that have to do with the courts?
The blue states are in open rebellion providing footholds for invading foreign nationals—illegal aliens. If we had an AG, they would’ve been prosecuted years ago for felony harboring said illegal aliens. It’s so bad now that the only way to curb this lawlessness is to send in the military.
Sounds like the courts are involved with forcing the chief executive in a City or State to obey the law, which is what it has to do with courts. Federal courts.
maybe you can tell this judge
“And does the Federal Government go to court to force cities and States to comply with Federal law as interpreted by the Executive branch?”
No. That was the way that IDIOT Jeff Sessions tried to do it—Take Mexifornia to court. The executive branch ENFORCES THE LAW not the fargin courts. And the executive branch doesn’t need the fargin courts to first ‘interpret’ the law in order for the executive to enforce it.
Well I guess now states can lower their drinking ages back down to 18, since the Federal Government no longer has the power to withhold Federal money to control their behavior.
Sure; you can spend that zero cash the feds sent you anyway you want.
Judge Edgardo Ramos is another one of those Obama judges that Chief Justice John Roberts does not believe exist. Judge Edgardo Ramos is just another Barack Obama stooge, continuing Obama’s goofy agenda. The democrats are trying to import more democratic voters to replace the black and Jewish people who are starting to wake up.
Yup, another Hispanic judge who rules based on his ethnicity rather than the Constitution. His type seems to permeate the judiciary, i.e. ruling based on thier ethnicity, their politics or ??? Everything but the law and Constitution
Ignores that whenever an entity accepts Federal; funds, there are strings attached and one must imagine that obeying Federal Laws and not using the money for purposes of breaking Federal laws would be a valid string.
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