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Posted on 06/25/2026 6:28:30 AM PDT by Red Badger
U.S. District Judge Evelyn Padin, hand-picked by Joe Biden, just tossed the Trump administration’s lawsuit against four Democrat-run New Jersey sanctuary cities, handing illegal alien criminals another layer of protection.
Judge Evelyn Padin dismissed the Department of Justice’s case against Newark, Jersey City, Paterson, and Hoboken without reaching the merits.
She ruled the federal lawsuit had a “fundamental flaw” because it challenged only the cities’ sanctuary policies and did not also target New Jersey’s statewide Immigrant Trust Directive, the NY Times reported.
Padin wrote that the city policies “do not operate in isolation” from the state directive that already restricts local law enforcement from cooperating with ICE. In other words, even if the cities’ rules were struck down, the state policy would still shield illegal aliens from federal removal.
This is the same Biden-appointed judge who earlier allowed the case to proceed during a government funding fight, acknowledging the “crisis of illegal immigration” and the real harm to American citizens.
Now she has slammed the door on this particular challenge with a technical ruling that leaves the sanctuary regime in place.
The Times reported:
The judge dismissed the lawsuit without prejudice, meaning the Justice Department could refile it. A spokesman for the department did not immediately return a request for comment.
The ruling came as protesters have swarmed Delaney Hall, an immigration facility in Newark, with nearly daily demonstrations. Local officials praised Judge Padin’s ruling, saying the immigrant trust directive was one key to maintaining good relationships between local police agencies and undocumented immigrants. Police departments depend on cooperation in immigrant neighborhoods to stop crime.
Amol Sinha, the executive director for the American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey, wrote in a statement that the sanctuary policies “help people access public services” without fear of being detained, separated from their families and perhaps deported.
“Public safety is strengthened when people can report crimes, and public health is improved when people can seek medical care,” he said.
The Trump DOJ sued the four cities and their Democrat mayors and councils, alleging they violate the Supremacy Clause by:
* Blocking local officers from honoring ICE detainers for criminal illegal aliens
* Preventing willing officers from sharing critical information with federal immigration authorities
* Restricting access to illegal aliens in local custody
These are the exact policies that have allowed repeat criminal illegal aliens to remain in American communities instead of being deported.
The Gateway Pundit has documented for years how sanctuary jurisdictions across the country, from California to New York to New Jersey, repeatedly release dangerous illegal aliens who then go on to commit more crimes against U.S. citizens.
Judge Padin’s ruling effectively shields those policies for now. The cities get to keep limiting cooperation with ICE, and the state’s Immigrant Trust Directive
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“No Kings”. Barack Obama is the real King of the United States.
Again, Trump’s DOJ gets/uses bad legal advice. It should have sued NJ State as well.
I think these sanctuary cities needs to go to the USSC. Federal Law overrides State Law.
The battles that Trump is waging are trench warfare. We should be prepared for that and have a plan. Trump does. His DOJ will appeal and probably win. His DOJ has a track record of winning most of these appeals. Its easy to find some clown district court judge (and most Biden and Obama appointees are clowns) to block a Trump policy. So we should not spend too much energy being outraged that it happens. Have a plan to counter it and execute on the plan. Ultimate victory will be the best revenge.
Judges breaking laws with their law breaking rulings
Court packing helps the Left.
Cut off every Federal dollar to these cities-especially for disaster relief.
That would explain his 90% favorable SCOTUS rulings.
“That would explain his 90% favorable SCOTUS rulings”
Where do you get the 90%??
Ok, so amend the suit to include State of NJ’s violation of the Constitution’s Supremacy clause, and thank the judge for pointing it out.
Hanging the judges for sedition would be the ultimate victory.
A judge who should NOT be in the court system!
There are "relationships" between local police agencies and undocumented immigrants? Do they have the phone numbers of undocumented people who they call and say: "Hey Pedro do you know anything about the armed robbery"?
What local officials said that? Do they have names? This is according to the NY Times. My guess is nobody said that.
ChatGPT
Why does Hoft always feel the need to put this kind of silliness into his articles? Of course judges are picked by the Presidents who pick them. "a leftist judge appointed by Biden" would have made the point better and that is what the problem is, not that Presidents who pick their judges pick their judges...
I don’t know, unless Biden knew this judge personally.............
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Padin
She is the second Latina federal judge for the District of New Jersey.[11]
Google AI reports that:
And it seems about right.
Many of the cases he’s losing in lower courts are not even getting to the SCOTUS.
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