**BREAKING: Federal judge blocks Trumps attack on sanctuary cities**
The Justice Department threatened to cut off grant funding to eight cities on Friday — unless those cities provide more support to federal officials trying to crack down on undocumented immigrants. But DOJ’s threat is unconstitutional and is highly unlikely to survive a lawsuit.
In fact, the Justice Department’s threat against these eight cities appears to be so amateurish and so poorly aligned with longstanding Supreme Court precedent that it raises serious questions about whether the threat was properly vetted.
At issue is funding for so-called “sanctuary cities,” a term that’s often used for cities that choose not to cooperate with federal efforts to arrest immigrants.
Under the Supreme Court’s “anti-commandeering doctrine,” the feds cannot order a state or local government to participate in a federal program. Thus, while a state or municipality may voluntarily agree to have its police force participate in federal immigration enforcement, state and local governments also have an absolute right to refuse to do so.
https://thinkprogress.org/jeff-sessions-amateurish-unconstitutional-assault-on-immigrants-dd6ab8a1671e
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UPDATE (4:18 P.M.): A federal judge has blocked Sessions’ efforts.
UPDATE (4:26 P.M.): The federal court’s order notes that the Trump administration’s attack on “sanctuary cities” suffers from various constitutional flaws. It imposes conditions on federal grant recipients without unambiguous legal authorization to do so, and it imposes conditions on those grant recipients that bear no relationship to the purpose of the grant. Both of these errors violate the Supreme Court’s holding in Dole.
https://apnews.com/a0e35587fcfa42f6bb767a3829325273/Judge-blocks-Trump-order-on-sanctuary-city-funding?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=AP
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