The Beat Goes On: Trump Administration Loses Another Sanctuary Case
U.S. District Judge Manuel Real
The defeats in the court continue for the Trump administration in its fights with “sanctuary” cities. Yesterday, a federal judge sided with the city of Los Angeles in ruling that the Department of Justice (DOJ) can’t factor sanctuary city policies into decisions over how to award local policing grants.
Bloomberg News reported that U.S. District Judge Manuel Real agreed with the city’s argument that the Justice Department was abusing its power in basing grant awards on whether a municipality’s police force cooperated with federal immigration officers.
San Francisco previously defeated the Trump administration in a legal challenge over the president’s executive order withholding federal funding from sanctuary jurisdictions. Federal judges in Chicago and Philadelphia also ruled against Trump over the administration’s attempt to make funding conditional on cooperation with its crackdown on undocumented immigrants.
The case is City of Los Angeles v. Jefferson B. Sessions III, 17-CV-07215, U.S. District Court, Central District of California (Los Angeles).
KJ