BREAKING: Attorney General Pam Bondi has ordered the Department of Justice to cut off all federal fu

[mystery-ak]

https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1887207285656523025

[Bigun]

 

[Lando Lincoln]

This Administration is thunder and lightning.

[DB]

Now we need the FBI director confirmed. Then things will be rolling full steam.

[Wingnut]

I an't never seen anything remotely like what I have seen the short span of a few weeks. 

I can't keep up with it all.  The  caterwauling of the liberal rats is a wonderful thing

[Canuck Conservative]

You cut off the best part of the title!

"Attorney General Pam Bondi has ordered the Department of Justice to cut off all federal funding ... to SANCTUARY CITIES" !!

(liberal heads exploding as we speak)

[Wingnut]

This Administration is thunder and lightning.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IefcDO2s9Q&ab_channel=1960s%2670sRock

[Bigun]

I an't never seen anything remotely like what I have seen the short span of a few weeks. 

I can't keep up with it all.  The  caterwauling of the liberal rats is a wonderful thing

I'm still afraid I'm going to wake up at some moment and the dream will be over.

[DB]

I'm still afraid I'm going to wake up at some moment and the dream will be over.

I know what you mean. There's virtually no way these people go quietly into the night even with all the public exposure of their criminality.

[DefiantMassRINO]

Sanity, at last!
Sanity, at Last!
Sanity, at Last!

[IsailedawayfromFR]

And Bondi is already ahead of the leftist judges who will rule this is unconstitutional.

Money is everything to these people and when the spigot is dry, the tears begin flowing profusely.

[Wingnut]

And Bondi is already ahead of the leftist judges who will rule this is unconstitutional.

Money is everything to these people and when the spigot is dry, the tears begin flowing profusely.

Its been a while but was it unconstitutional back when the Fed Gov did it to force the hold-out states to lower the speed limit to the double nickel?

[Canuck Conservative]

There's no free lunch in Life.

US States are supposed to follow Federal laws. If they don't do that, FedGov isn't bound to keep up its part of the deal either.

[libertybele]

She is a force to be reckoned with. 

[IsailedawayfromFR]

Its been a while but was it unconstitutional back when the Fed Gov did it to force the hold-out states to lower the speed limit to the double nickel?

Old now-deceased Jimmy whos is in peanut heaven did it as he declared a 'national emergency' as OPEC cut off our oil imports.

I doubt anybody every challenged him before a court.

[IsailedawayfromFR]

She is a force to be reckoned with. 

It will be a masterclass course in weaponry.

And after the immediate priorities of returning this country back to the way the federal government should operate, I foresee she will turn the headlights on the criminal behavior of her predecessors, Garland and Holder.

I need a bigger popcorn machine, with the best coconut oil money can buy

[Wingnut]

Old now-deceased Jimmy whos is in peanut heaven did it as he declared a 'national emergency' as OPEC cut off our oil imports.

I doubt anybody every challenged him before a court.

IIRC they didn't sue.  I think TX AZ and a few other low population states were the last to comply to Jinnah's threat.

[The_Reader_David]

Its been a while but was it unconstitutional back when the Fed Gov did it to force the hold-out states to lower the speed limit to the double nickel?

Congress did that.  The AG cannot constitutionally cut off monies appropriated by Congress for particular purposes unless the appropriation allowed discretion to the AG or President on how the funds were to be directed.  If, for instance, there was an appropriation that specified the DOJ distribute it to cities for some law-enforcement purpose, and it was specified that it be distributed according to some particular criterion (say population), the AG couldn't stop the flow of money.  If there is an appropriation that directs the DOJ to distribute money at the discretion of the AG for some purpose, then there's no basis for a constitutional challenge to cutting off funds to "sanctuary cities", provided they are spent elsewhere for the purposes Congress specified.

[libertybele]

Congress did that.  The AG cannot constitutionally cut off monies appropriated by Congress for particular purposes unless the appropriation allowed discretion to the AG or President on how the funds were to be directed.  If, for instance, there was an appropriation that specified the DOJ distribute it to cities for some law-enforcement purpose, and it was specified that it be distributed according to some particular criterion (say population), the AG couldn't stop the flow of money.  If there is an appropriation that directs the DOJ to distribute money at the discretion of the AG for some purpose, then there's no basis for a constitutional challenge to cutting off funds to "sanctuary cities", provided they are spent elsewhere for the purposes Congress specified.

She was a great AG for the state of FL and I don't see her making such a blanket statement without knowing what she can or cannot do.

[bilo]

This Administration is thunder and lightning.

 

[bilo]

Now we need the FBI director confirmed. Then things will be rolling full steam.

I can't imagine why the Rats are holding it up. /s

[Free Vulcan]

I an't never seen anything remotely like what I have seen the short span of a few weeks. 

I can't keep up with it all.  The  caterwauling of the liberal rats is a wonderful thing

Dude, the rush right now is better than...well just about anything. It's like the clouds broke and the sun is shining on a fine spring day.

[Free Vulcan]

Thank you Rats for all the years of precedent that you can deny Federal funds for the silliest of violations. It makes it easy to deny funds for jurisdictions who exist in a state of illegality over immigration, the one big thing the FedGov has near plenary power over.

[Right_in_Virginia]

Sorry for the interruption, but .... don't miss the ring. 

[libertybele]

Sorry for the interruption, but .... don't miss the ring. 

Wow!  How did I miss it???

[IsailedawayfromFR]

There's no free lunch in Life.

US States are supposed to follow Federal laws. If they don't do that, FedGov isn't bound to keep up its part of the deal either.

that goes both ways, BTW.  It is why nullification is getting to be popular.

[Smokin Joe]

I know what you mean. There's virtually no way these people go quietly into the night even with all the public exposure of their criminality.

You mean they'd have an...insurrection? 

[rangerrebew]

 
Pam Bondi freezes DOJ funding for sanctuary cities, as Michelle Wu gets date to testify in front of Congress
Story by Rick Sobey, Boston Herald • 7h

Attorney General Pam Bondi on her first day in charge put a freeze on Department of Justice funding to sanctuary cities, as Boston Mayor Michelle Wu got a date to testify before a Congressional oversight committee investigating sanctuary city policies.

Bondi, who was approved as AG on Tuesday evening, issued a day-one memo about sanctuary jurisdictions, as President Trump ramps up his illegal immigration crackdown.
 
“ … The Department of Justice will ensure that, consistent with law, ‘sanctuary jurisdictions’ do not receive access to Federal funds from the Department,” reads Bondi’s memo.

“Sanctuary jurisdictions should not receive access to federal grants administered by the Department of Justice,” the memo later states.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/pam-bondi-freezes-doj-funding-for-sanctuary-cities-as-michelle-wu-gets-date-to-testify-in-front-of-congress/ar-AA1yuNBT?ocid=widgetonlockscreen&cvid=3e5c4f9a91a04ea0b5588bfabe327774&ei=52

[rangerrebew]

She already showing she has bigger cajónes than most of the republican men in congress!