Obama-Appointed Judge Blocks Trump From Denying Funds To Sanctuary Cities
Jason Hopkins April 24, 20251
https://dailycaller.com/An Obama-appointed judge blocked the Trump administration from denying federal funds to jurisdictions that refuse to cooperate with federal immigration officials.
U.S. District Judge William Orrick, appointed to the bench in California by President Barack Obama in 2013, ruled Thursday that a pair of executive orders signed by President Donald Trump aiming to crack down on sanctuary cities are likely unconstitutional, according to court documents. San Francisco, San Diego County and a slate of other liberal enclaves that refuse to work with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents sued to block the orders from going into effect.
“Here we are again,” Orrick wrote, referring to a previous executive order Trump signed in his first term seeking to defund sanctuary cities — an order that the judge also shot down at the time.
In 2017, Trump signed Executive Order 13,768, titled “Enhancing Public Safety in the Interior of the United States,” a directive that sought to withhold federal funds from sanctuary cities. Following a court challenge by San Francisco, Orrick ruled the order to be unconstitutional and that the defendants “faced irreparable harm absent an injunction,” according to court documents.
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