A federal judge issued an injunction blocking the Trump administration’s executive order to prohibit federal funds from going to places considered sanctuary jurisdictions.
U.S. District Judge William H. Orrick, who was nominated to the Northern District of California by Barack Obama, said the executive orders to “withhold, freeze, or condition federal funding apportioned to localities by Congress, violate the Constitution’s separation of powers principles and the Spending Clause.”
President Trump issued executive orders instructing Attorney General Pam Bondi and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem to withhold federal funds from ‘sanctuary cities’ that do not cooperate with federal immigration law.
JUST IN: A federal judge has barred the Trump administration from pulling federal funds from places it deems “sanctuary cities,” saying the
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