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Zippyjuan
04-19-2018, 07:47 PM
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/04/19/appeals-court-ruling-trump-sanctuary-cities-537823


President Donald Trump's effort to crack down on sanctuary cities suffered another legal setback Thursday as a federal appeals court in Chicago upheld a nationwide injunction against making federal grant funding contingent on cooperation with immigration enforcement.

A three-judge panel—all of whom are Republican appointees—ruled that there were strong indications that the administration exceeded its legal authority in trying to implement the new conditions without approval from Congress.

The ruling came on a suit filed by the City of Chicago after the Justice Department imposed the new conditions last July in a bid to encourage state and local governments to provide more assistance to immigration authorities.

In a strongly worded opinion, Judge Ilana Rovner said allowing federal agencies to add conditions to grant funds without explicit congressional authority could lead toward "tyranny."

"The Attorney General in this case used the sword of federal funding to conscript state and local authorities to aid in federal civil immigration enforcement. But the power of the purse rests with Congress, which authorized the federal funds at issue and did not impose any immigration enforcement conditions on the receipt of such funds," Rovner wrote, in an opinion joined by Judge William Bauer. "It falls to us, the judiciary, as the remaining branch of the government, to act as a check on such usurpation of power."

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Swordsmyth
04-19-2018, 07:59 PM
It will be overturned.

oyarde
04-19-2018, 09:23 PM
Consider that immigration is one of the few things the fed govt should control I think the judges would need to be more specific about what they feel is over reach . Personally I have no problem with tax dollars going unspent .