Judge puts hold on POTUS Donnie’s EO to block funding to sanctuary cities – PB/TK
Again: Federal judge halts Trump order blocking funding for sanctuary cities – BY ALLAHPUNDIT APRIL 25, 2017
Increasingly I wonder if this Lawfare post from March about a “revolt of the judges” against the Trump White House was correct. Traditionally courts show some deference to the president in interpreting laws or orders he’s signed — but what if, due to their suspicions about Trump’s motives, they no longer feel obliged to give the executive branch any benefit of the doubt?
In that case, you’d expect to see many more orders blocked than you would under a different administration. Here’s another one now. Trump’s EO on sanctuary cities will be halted nationwide (temporarily, as this is a preliminary injunction) courtesy of another west-coast judge and Obama appointee.
Orrick cited public comments from Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions in concluding that the order appeared intended to sweep more broadly than allowed by federal law. The judge, an Obama appointee, called “not legally plausible” the Justice Department’s arguments that Trump was simply trying to secure compliance with current law.
“If there was doubt about the scope of the Order, the President and Attorney General have erased it with their public comments,” Orrick wrote. “The Constitution vests the spending power in Congress, not the President, so the Order cannot constitutionally place new conditions on federal funds.”
Continue to hotair.com article: http://hotair.com/archives/2017/04/25/federal-judge-halts-trump-order-blocking-funding-sanctuary-cities/
