US judge blocks Trump from withholding funds from 16 'sanctuary' cities, counties

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trump loses another lawsuit

US judge blocks Trump from withholding funds from 16 'sanctuary' cities, counties reut.rs/4cJjDGw

— Reuters (@reuters.com) 2025-04-24T15:50:12Z

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April 24 (Reuters) - A federal judge in San Francisco on Thursday blocked Donald Trump's administration from withholding federal funding from several so-called sanctuary jurisdictions that have declined to cooperate with the Republican president's fhardline immigration crackdown.

U.S. District Judge William Orrick issued the injunction, opens new tab at the request of 16 cities and counties nationally led by San Francisco that in a lawsuit filed in February argued that the administration was unlawfully trying to force local officials to cooperate with federal immigration arrests.

Those jurisdictions include the cities of Minneapolis, New Haven, Portland, St. Paul, Santa Fe and Seattle. They argue that the administration is seeking to punish them for exercising their rights to limit the use of their resources for federal civil immigration enforcement.

The lawsuit challenged an executive order Trump signed that threatened to cut off federal funding to sanctuary jurisdictions that limit or refuse to cooperate with federal immigration law enforcement, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

The localities sued a day after the U.S. Department of Justice sued the state of Illinois and the city of Chicago, seeking a court order blocking so-called sanctuary laws that the Democratic-led jurisdictions adopted that it said were interfering with Trump's agenda

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1. This ruling makes me smile

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[Tadpole Raisin]

2. But how does one prove he has complied because you know he won't.

It will be delay, deny, appeal. Rinse, repeat.

And by the time months go by and the damage has been done it will be almost impossible to get the people back to administer the program. They will have moved on to new jobs out of necessity.

Felon 47 loves delay and is never embarrassed or chastised by his decisions or their reversals.

Hope SCOTUS is pleased with themselves, unleashing this monster from their theoretical ivory tower where cases are just bandied about like discussions at a cocktail party.

[MichMan]

3. The government was previously allowed to withhold all highway funding from states

that didn't implement the 55 mph speed limit or change their drinking age to 21. Those were upheld by the SC, so there is some precedent if it makes it that far.