A judge has blocked Trump’s order to defund sanctuary cities. In a really weird way.
BREAKING: Judge blocks Trump move cutting off funding to sanctuary cities
— Fox News Politics (@foxnewspolitics) April 25, 2017
BREAKING: US judge blocks Trump order to cut off funding to cities that limit cooperation with immigration authorities.
— The Associated Press (@AP) April 25, 2017
From Bloomberg:
A San Francisco judge barred enforcement of President Donald Trump’s executive order withholding funds from so-called sanctuary cities that fail to comply with federal immigration demands by shielding undocumented immigrants.
San Francisco and its Silicon Valley neighbor, Santa Clara County, on Tuesday both won preliminary injunctions blocking the Jan. 25 edict by Trump who declared sanctuary jurisdictions cause “immeasurable harm to the American people and to the very fabric of our republic.” The city and county argued the president’s order violated the Constitution and threatened to deprive them of funding for local programs.
Jeff Sessions is gonna say, “I can’t believe some gay city in California is allowed to shut down Trump!” or some such.
The ruling sounds kinda odd:
BREAKING: Judge blocks Trump's sanctuary cities executive order (in about the strangest way possible…) pic.twitter.com/gn8C4y5hKd
— Matt Zapotosky (@mattzap) April 25, 2017
It’s like, sanctuary cities can do their thing, and the Trump admin can still cut funding, just don’t do it unconstitutionally. What?
Justice can still withhold grants from places not complying w/ law on communication w/ ICE & HL Security can still define sanctuary cities..
— Matt Zapotosky (@mattzap) April 25, 2017
But Trump's order can't be enforced "in a way that violates the Constitution."
— Matt Zapotosky (@mattzap) April 25, 2017
Clearly they didn’t think it was unconstitutional in the first place, so why leave it up to them to not impose the order in an unconstitutional way? Weird…
I have a feeling el Trumpo won’t like this either… ban federal judges!!