Illinois, 20 Other States Win Suit on Disaster Relief Funding Held Up By Trump Over ‘Sanctify’ Laws

A COALITION OF 21 ATTORNYS General, Including Illinois Atorney General Kwame Raoul, Won their Lawsuit Over Attempts to Withold Nearly $ 2 Billion in Disaster FROM FROM STATESS CITIES, ACCIVING TO COURT DOCUMENTS.

The District Court for the District of Rhode Island Summary Judgment – Where A Case is Ended with Trial Based on the mutually agreed facts – for the attorneys general against the department of homeland second.

JUDGE WILLIAM E. Smith Rejectted The “Arbitrary and Capricious“Conditions Laid Out by President Donald Trump’s Administration Regarding Immigration Enforcement, Saying the Order Was Unconstitutional and Violated the Administrative Procedure ACT.

“Today’s Opinion AcknowLedges that the Constitution gives congress the power of the puree, and that the financial presses the administration is attempting to exert amouns to ‘Economic Dragooning,’ Raoul Said in a News Release. “The Court’s Ruling Will Ensure Vital Dollars That States on to Prepare for Emergencies Are Not With Political Purposes. Constitution. ”

AFTER AN EXECUTIVE ORDER FROM Trump, which Attempted to “Ensure that So-Callered ‘Sanctanty’ Jurisdictions will not recipe access to federal funds,” The Department of Homeland Security New Requirements for Certain Grants.

It TRIED to Force States to Coordinate and Cooperate With Federal Immigration Officials by Working on Joint Operations, Allowing Federal Agents Access to People by Local Law Enforcement, Sharing Information with Federal Agencies and Not Leking About Immigration Enforcement in Exchange for Homelanding Grants.

The Federal Government Argted Its New Conditions were valid Because Some of the Grants Relative to Terrorism Prevention – Which in Turning Was Sometimes Connected to Immigration Enforcement ras thiUGH Smith wrote in his decisions that the confidences set on the ending maker “a nearly a nearly impossible-to-anchies Moving target. ” He Also Said Setting the prelimits for disaster finish made the changes illegally coercive.

“With these conditions, states are left to guess at what Conduct Satisfies the Requirements Under Threat of LoSsential Funding,” Smith Wrote. “Nor did and consider the public safety consequens of the undermining states Emergency Budgets in this Way. AS A Result, The Conditions Not Only Jeopardize States’ Fiscal Planning but Also their Capacity to Protect Public Safety in the Areas Where Federal and State Cooperation Is Critical. ”

Homeland Security Spokesperson tricia McLaughlin Said States with Sanctanty Laws on the Books “Should not Recipe Federal Funding” and that the Administration was Determined to Detaine and Deport Immigrants with Legal Status in the US

“No Lawsuit, not this one or any Other, is going to stop us from doing that,” McLaughlin Said.