'Outside of the bounds of the Constitution': Judge deals another blow to Trump's sanctuary city crusade, blocks funding cuts for 34 more jurisdictions

The Trump administration has, erstwhile again, been blocked from slashing national backing for sanctuary jurisdictions successful a recently extended order, with a national justice present prohibiting the authorities from punishing much than 30 further cities and counties crossed the state aft issuing a akin artifact earlier this year.

U.S. District Judge William Orrick handed down an updated preliminary injunction precocious Friday successful the Northern District of California after protecting 16 cities and counties from backing cuts successful April, arsenic previously reported by Law&Crime.

This time, Orrick delivered alleviation to 34 much jurisdictions crossed the U.S. — including Baltimore, Chicago and Los Angeles — aft adding a radical of caller plaintiffs connected Aug. 5 to the ongoing suit against President Donald Trump and his medication that spurred the archetypal injunction. Orrick's Friday bid "mirrors the first" to support the recently added cities and counties, the justice said.

"The caller plaintiffs person each alleged akin reliance connected national backing arsenic the cities and counties and filed declarations showing akin harms to assemblage health, payment and societal services and to their budgetary processes that beryllium connected the regularly authorized grants of national backing for a assortment of captious needs," Orrick explained. "Defendants connection nary absorption to introduction of the expanded preliminary injunction but to accidental that the bid granting the preliminary injunction and further bid were wrongly decided successful the archetypal spot and nary plaintiff is entitled to the alleviation sought."

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Orrick, a Barack Obama appointee, condemned the Trump medication for enacting enforcement orders and related bureau directives that were "unconstitutional violations of the separation of powers and spending clause doctrines." He echoed his erstwhile bid and said the attempts to chopped backing interruption the Fifth Amendment, the Tenth Amendment, and the Administrative Procedure Act (APA).

"The challenged sections of enforcement orders … and the enforcement actions that person parroted them endanger to withhold each national backing from the plaintiffs arsenic sanctuary jurisdictions if they bash not accommodate their policies and practices to conform with the Trump administration's preferences," Orrick pointed out. "That coercive menace (and immoderate actions agencies instrumentality to recognize that threat, oregon further enforcement orders the President issues to the aforesaid end) is unconstitutional, truthful I enjoined its effect. I bash truthful again contiguous for the extortion of the caller parties successful this case."

In February, the plaintiffs sued President Trump and others implicit 2 enforcement orders — "Protecting the American People Against Invasion" and "Ending Taxpayer Subsidization of Open Borders" — issued in January and February, which asked administrative agencies to look for ways to chopped disconnected each national backing for jurisdictions challenging the administration's anti-immigrant policies.

After the suit was initially filed, the plaintiffs sought a preliminary injunction – which they won. The plaintiffs aboriginal pushed for a clarifying bid aft the 45th and 47th president issued an further enforcement bid aimed astatine sanctuary jurisdictions successful April – which they besides won. Along the way, the tribunal besides issued a alleged "further order" explaining wherefore the plaintiffs are apt to win and granted respective judicial announcement requests which brought respective argumentation memos issued by bureau heads into the litigation.

Orrick was asked successful aboriginal August to let the further 34 jurisdictions into the suit and to unafraid the protections of the injunctive alleviation already issued.

"I issued the [original] preliminary injunction to forestall the defendants from taking actions with respect to national backing for alleged sanctuary jurisdictions that autumn extracurricular of the bounds of the Constitution, peculiarly due to the fact that of their overly coercive effect," Orrick said Friday. "It bars the defendants (and their officers, agents, servants, employees, and attorneys, and immoderate different persons successful progressive performance oregon information with them) from, successful applicable part, taking immoderate enactment to withhold, freeze, oregon information national funds from the cities and counties.

The Trump medication has appealed his archetypal order.

"The authorities — astatine each levels — has the work to support American citizens from harm," White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson told the Los Angeles Times aft Orrick's ruling was handed down Friday. "Sanctuary cities interfere with national migration enforcement astatine the disbursal and information and information of American citizens," Jackson said. "We look guardant to eventual vindication connected the issue."

Colin Kalmbacher contributed to this report.