California Judge declines Trump request to remove block on sanctuary cities order

A Federal judge in California has denied Trump administration request to remove injunction blocking the president’s executive order on sanctuary cities from being implemented, Politco reports.

U.S. District Judge William Orrick III  on Thursday moved to decline a request by the Justice Department to reconsider if an Attorney General Jeff Sessions memo lifted the need for an injunction. Orrick said, “the Counties have to stand, that their claims against the Executive Order are ripe and that they are likely to succeed on the merits of those claims.”

AG Jeff Sessions released a memo directing officials to narrowly interpret Trump’s January action on sanctuary cities. Hours later the Justice Department requested he court to lift its injunction citing the notice. The Judge citing public comments made by the Attorney General and Trump regarding the scope of the administration to dismiss notions that the executive order would simply be used to enforce existing law.

He said “If there was doubt about the scope of the Order, the President, and Attorney General have erased it with their public comments,” Orrick wrote. “The Constitution vests the spending power in Congress, not the President, so the Order cannot constitutionally place new conditions on federal funds.”

Sessions said in his memo that cities and localities that “willfully refuse to comply” with federal law would be subject to funding removal, but that it would only apply to Justice Department and Homeland Security grants “and not to other sources of federal funding.”

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