Legal Insurrection by Leslie Eastman 7/1/2025
LA Mayor Karen Bass and City Council were also sued.It was mere weeks ago that demonstrators against the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials were organizing in Los Angeles, waving Mexican flags, throwing rocks at ICE vehicles, setting fire to Waymo vehicles, and igniting other blazes around federal facilities.
The organizers of this fiasco may have thought they were creating BLM 2025, but with a Mexican twist. However, President Donald Trump’s administration seems to have been prepared for a BLM replay, and Los Angeles officials are now dealing with a number of unintended consequences.
To begin, Trump sent in the National Guard and the U.S. Marines to protect federal property. The demonstrations were not allowed to escalate as likely intended.
The anti-ICE riots are poised to cost the city $32 million in recovery and repair efforts. Department of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy indicates he will not be authorizing one dime to help the city with these expenses.
Now the Trump administration’s Department of Justice (DOJ) has filed a federal lawsuit against the city, arguing that its recently enacted sanctuary city policies violate the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution by intentionally discriminating against the federal government and impeding federal immigration enforcement.
The city’s laws, DOJ says, “interfere with and discriminate against the Federal Government’s enforcement of federal immigration law,” according to the lawsuit filed Monday.
“The practical upshot of Los Angeles’ refusal to cooperate with federal immigration authorities has, since June 6, 2025, been lawlessness, rioting, looting, and vandalism. The situation became so dire that the Federal Government deployed the California National Guard and United States Marines to quell the chaos,” the complaint states.
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