Judge refuses to lift freeze on Trump administration policy
Source: Associated Press
Michael Tarm, Ap Legal Affairs Writer
Updated 5:23 pm, Friday, October 13, 2017
CHICAGO (AP) — A U.S. district judge in Chicago on Friday denied a request by the U.S. Department of Justice to lift a national freeze on a Trump administration policy that seeks to withhold public safety grants to so-called sanctuary cities that don't agree to tougher enforcement of U.S. immigration law.
Judge Harry Leinenweber's ruling comes a month after he imposed the preliminary injunction blocking the administration from tying the grants to two new conditions, that cities notify immigration agents when someone in the country illegally is about to be released from jail and allow agents easy access to jails.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions argued it was wrong to apply an order nationally in a case brought by Chicago and that it should only apply to that city. Even before Friday's ruling, the Justice Department already took its objections about the injunction and other legal issues to the Chicago-based U.S. 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Leinenweber agreed in his written ruling that such a sweeping freeze was an "extraordinary remedy" that a U.S. district judge shouldn't resort to lightly. But he said the legal issues in the Chicago case impact cities and counties nationwide and so a nationwide injunction is called for.
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