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Related: About this forumGovernor Cuomo's Reponse To Trump and the DOJ's Calling NYC An "Anarchist Jurisdiction"
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https://soundcloud.com/nygovcuomo/092120-anarchist-government-cut/s-9w7WnsSCoEH
I don't care if Cuomo calls this politics and campaign rhetoric. To call the first capital of the United States, the state whose New Amsterdam established Tolerance as the first official American policy; to call the financial capital of the world an "anarchist jurisdiction" is the ultimate unconstitutional tyranny of a dictator.
Full transcript.
If you remember, the Trump Administration tried this once before, not a new play. A couple of years ago they said sanctuary cities would not get federal criminal justice moneys and we said it was illegal and unconstitutional. We sued them and we won. Federal court said they could not take the federal money that was appropriated by Congress.
New York City has about $7 billion in federal funding which is much higher than the other cities he's named. Seattle only gets about $365 million. Not only - it's a lot of money but compared to New York City, it's not. Portland, Oregon, $252 million. New York City, $7.4 billion. Congress appropriates funds with specific legal requirements, so New York City gets HOME money from HUD. That's affordable housing money, it's appropriated with specific laws about the administration of that money. It gets community development block grant, CDBG, from HUD.
There are specific legal requirements on that funding. The President can't supersede the law and say, "I'm going to make those funds basically discretionary funds," which is what he would to do to basically say, "I control all federal funding." He doesn't control federal funding. The federal law controls federal funding, and the federal law is very specific: Jurisdiction doesn't get affordable housing money if it does this, jurisdiction gets community development money if it does this, the jurisdiction gets Title I education funding if it does this. And the President is not above the law - that's the Constitution of the United States.
Policing is a power by the Constitution that is left to the States. That's the Tenth Amendment, it's left to the States. New York City is a creature of State law and the State, New York State, has the Constitutional authority for policing power. So just like sanctuary cities when he did it a couple of years ago and lost, if they actually do this, we will challenge it legally and he will lose once again because we've seen this play before. But again, it's just for the politics and part of his campaign rhetoric.
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Thekaspervote
(32,790 posts)Cuomos calm response puts it in perfect perspective. Notice he and the other governors and mayors arent reacting because they know its just bull shit! Its just another trial balloon to see if they can stir up a protest that his boogaloos can then take over and turn violent.