Democrats should be grateful that the Supreme Court ruled that federal judges/courts cannot implement nationwide rulings, as an LA loss could have meant all sanctuary jurisdictions ended
Trump administration sues Los Angeles over sanctuary policies
The Trump administration has filed a lawsuit against the city of Los Angeles over its immigration policies, the Justice Department announced Monday, claiming sanctuary policies limiting cooperation with federal immigration authorities clash with federal law.
The filing marks an escalation in the Trump administration’s feuding with California over immigration, and is the latest strike by DOJ against sanctuary-city laws in various states.
“Sanctuary policies were the driving cause of the violence, chaos, and attacks on law enforcement that Americans recently witnessed in Los Angeles,” Attorney General Pamela Bondi said in the press release. “Jurisdictions like Los Angeles that flout federal law by prioritizing illegal aliens over American citizens are undermining law enforcement at every level – it ends under President Trump.”
The filing, which names the city, Mayor Karen Bass and the City Council, follows a wave of protests in Los Angeles over immigration raids targeting farms and businesses. It comes as the Trump administration is locked in separate litigation with Gov. Gavin Newsom, who sued the administration to block the deployment of the National Guard in the city in response to the upheaval.
The latest lawsuit argues that the city’s “refusal to cooperate with federal immigration authorities” has led to “lawlessness, rioting, looting, and vandalism.” Los Angeles had lifted a curfew placed in response to the protests after a week as protesting died down.
The filing also said that the city’s policies are “designed to and in fact do interfere with and discriminate against the Federal Government’s enforcement of federal immigration law in violation of the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution,” an argument the administration has long used in its attack on sanctuary-city laws.
It’s assigned to an Obama appointed federal judge. I guess we’ll see. But, according to previous lawsuits, such as Obama suing Arizona over SB1070, the federal government has primacy, and, states/cities must follow federal law when it comes to immigration.
It’s kind of amusing. The twelve circuit Courts of Appeals could issue rulings which were considered precedent only for their districts, yet individual district courts had been able to issue nationwide injunctions. More, only the Court of Appeals for their districts could overrule those district court judges.
Justice Clarence Thomas has long railed against the practice of district courts issuing nationwide injunctions, but now things are beginning to make more sense.
The local news should have a “Taxpayer money spent fighting Trump” ticker rolling on the side of the screen. Like the “debt clock” but it’s only for legal fees of public servants using taxpayer dollars fighting Trump. Let the taxpayers see what else they’re spending their taxes on besides funding illegal aliens.