You would think lawbreaking automatically not be rewarded. Au contraire, mon frère. The left’s death grip is so fixed, this ruling is YUUUUUGE. ????????
9th Circuit hands win to Trump: DOJ can withhold grants from Sanctuary Cities
By Legal Insurrection, July 15, 2019 at 5:00pm“This ruling reverses a lawless decision that enabled Sanctuary City policies, putting the safety and security of all Americans in harm’s way”
The Trump administration’s decision to crack down on sanctuary policies by withholding funding resulted in Los Angeles being denied a $3 million grant, a move that prompted the city to sue the DOJ.
Story continues below advertisementOn Friday, the Trump administration scored a huge win when the 9th Circuit overturned a nationwide injunction barring the DOJ from prioritizing taxpayer monies to cities and states that cooperate with federal immigration officials.
The three-judge panel, in a 2-1 vote, found that the Trump administration has the right to deny sanctuary cities and states Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) grants.
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday ruled in favor of the Trump administration’s efforts to prioritize federal dollars for local policing to towns and cities that complied with certain immigration policies.
The ruling, a split 2-1 decision, said the Department of Justice (DOJ) was within its rights to withhold Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) grants from sanctuary cities and states over their refusal to work with federal immigration enforcement authorities and instead prioritize agencies that focused on unauthorized immigration and agreed to give Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) access to jail records and immigrants in custody.
The city of Los Angeles first sued the administration after it was denied a $3 million grant on the grounds that it did not receive the money because it did not focus on immigration for its community policing grant application. The decision reversed a district court’s ruling.
“The panel rejected Los Angeles’s argument that DOJ’s practice of giving additional consideration to applicants that choose to further the two specified federal goals violated the Constitution’s Spending Clause,” wrote Judge Sandra Ikuta, joined by Judge Jay Bybee.
“The panel held that DOJ did not exceed its statutory authority in awarding bonus points to applicants that selected the illegal immigration focus area or that agreed to the Certification,” she wrote.
You can read the ruling here.
According to the LA Times, LA City Attorney Mike “Feuer said the city would explore all options, including an appeal to a larger panel of the 9th Circuit.”
“If this decision were to stand, this or another administration could add other conditions, favoring jurisdictions that criminalize abortions or allow teachers to have guns in classrooms,” Feuer said.
Needless to say, the DOJ and the White House are pleased with the 9th Circuit panel’s decision.
“The Department is pleased that the Court recognized the lawful authority of the Administration to provide favorable treatment when awarding discretionary law-enforcement grants to jurisdictions that assist in enforcing federal immigration laws,” the Justice Department said in an emailed statement.
“This ruling reverses a lawless decision that enabled Sanctuary City policies, putting the safety and security of all Americans in harm’s way,” the White House said later Friday in an emailed statement. “We urge citizens across America to demand that Democrat leaders cease their support for Sanctuary policies that deprive Americans of life, limb, and liberty.”
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this really is a man bites dog story. who were these 3 “judges”?
There are 25+ judges on this court. If it’s appealed (forget what it’s called) for the rest of those 9th Circuit Judges, guess what? IT WILL BE OVERTURNED.
VERY SAD that liberals are so anti-American, you’d think they would be happier living in a country that is Communist or Socialist such as Iran, UK, France, Italy, Germany, Russia, Venezuela……………Oh that’s right! AMERICA IS THE ONLY FREE COUNTRY LEFT and they are even trying to destroy her. You’d think they would understand that when America falls, SO WILL THEY!
Yes- “happy” to go there but not to be there – for once they tried to pull their crap there= after the midnight knock on the door it would be-
1) gulag re-ed work camp time
– or –
2) meet the rifle squad time
No “free speech” there….
The Left are small, shallow, mindless + ungrateful people.
Stalin called them “useful idiots” and were some of the 1st people he had shot for being fickle enough to later back a competitor.
Final solution for Godless Commies is mass liquidation = just like clockwork…
For muslums and atheist Communists utopia is only a genocide of the unbeliever away.
OT, but fun fact. The presumably future president of the EU fake parliament
(Pam’s birth year) has American ancestors, while Farage has German ones.
He is also married to a German woman. UvD’s best friend in the Bundestag
seems to be German-English socialist Katharina Barley. Trump is a mixture
of Scots and Germans. There were also some half-American top Nazis, like
Hanfstaengl & Von Schirach. What did she get the “Lithuanian Order of the
Merit” for? Lithuania is known to have actively participated in the Holocaust.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Ladson
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/07/16/farage-von-der-leyen-wants-updated-form-communism/
Another of such Anglo-Germans.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_McAllister
https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-premier-of-lower-saxony-david-mcallister-cdu-l-and-the-german-ambassador-55258250.html
Eight months imprisonment on probation for Islam critic Michael Stür-
zenberger. The opposite side’s lawyer (an Islam-friendly pastor): Fer-
dinand von Schirach, grandson of the infamous Hitler Youth Leader.
https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pi-news.net%2F2019%2F07%2Fmuenchen-acht-monate-haft-auf-bewaehrung-fuer-stuerzenberger%2F
A particularly repulsive Islam lover is this self-proclaimed church prince
who is married to an American woman and even took her name (proba-
bly because it sounds so delightfully modern “Denglish” & up-to-date).
https://www.infomigrants.net/en/post/17578/germany-s-protestant-church-calls-for-help-for-sea-watch-migrants
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/07/16/migrant-ngo-captain-demands-europe-500000-migrants/
Socialist Andre-
otti’s Mafia trial
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giulio_Andreotti#Controversies
No “socialist”, but still a criminal.
This would have
had to be there.
http://b1ff5939f6.nxcli.net/2019/07/oil-tanker-missing.html/#comment-4542531646
That some of Hitler’s last relatives live in NYC and
praise Merkel instead of Trump is a bizarre curiosity.
https://www.businessinsider.de/hitlers-descendant-merkel-trump-2018-10?r=US&IR=T
I live in the City of Los Angeles and I do not like this cities sanctuary policy and the California state sanctuary policy. It is time for these cities and states to go along with the Federal Government Policy on immigration and stop resisting the Federal Government.
Denying funds to small local programs is laughably weak Trump.
Sanctuary Cities ARE illegal!
Sanctuary City and State governments are Seditious and Treasonous!
Arrest them all at once Trump, you coward!
You have my condolences for living in the hell hole that is now Los Angeles, but don’t take it as an insult because the entirety of Caliphornication is headed for the same destination: a crime ridden, traffic gridlocked, dem0rat run, tax heavy, hell hole overrun by homeless drug addicts.
Unbelievable!!!!!!!!!!!! Funny how all of the libturds claim that the Federal Government can’t manage their funds per their priorities. The grants were there to support the security of the Country….if the libturds want to obstruct and offer all of the criminal illegals free cash and support then let it be covered from their taxpayers NOT the federal taxpayers back!
Life in California is In-tents.
This is very, very good news.Let those traitorous cities take money out of their budget.
Trump’s Pathetic
Social Media Summit’
https://www.amren.com/commentary/2019/07/trumps-pathetic-social-media-summit/
GBT!
Once a year, the usually Bolshevik Ninth Circuit Court surprises me with a decision that favors the USA!
Great! I love it and he should start immediately.
“Your either for Me or against Me”
“A house divided cannot stand”
– Jesus –
Boils down to a spiritual war in the hearts of mankind- even here in America….
“Calling good evil and evil good”
“Will the core of iniquity that devises evil by law be accepted by you?”
“The hater’s of God gather together against the life of the righteous and condemn innocent blood” – inspired “Word of God”
Yes it is true the Left wants(needs) illegal votes + voter fraud – most of us paying attention realize it…
Only why aren’t those who should be shouting from their elected position fighting tooth-n-nail doing so 24/7 – ?l
Reps/Senators/Governor’s + honest media’s-etc should be ripping the cover off this plot = the silence is very unsettling.
* Someone is able to keep a lid on this goings on- along w/$OROS bought voting machines.
POTUS Trump has the “bully pulpit” as does his administration officials.
People must be afraid…
However Reagan landslided twice(49-States 2nd term) proving WE are the true majority the Left must cheat to win.
Just if- this time “WE the(real) People” show up for every election this illicit tide can be pushed back to where WE can roll back the liars Left’s unConstitutional legislation + regulations foisted on us for 106-yrs (since 1913).
The “sleeping giant” must awaken or face that “1,000-yrs of darkness” Reagan clearly warned of…
THE TIDE IS T U R N I N G ! GOD BLESS AMERICA
A small step for sanity, a giant leap for Lawful Behavior !!!
Los Angeles is the rotten, corrupt, dem0rat controlled city that tried to pass an additional property tax on all its inhabitants, a tax based on the square footage of a property (or maybe a domicile) that would be paid in addition to the normal property taxes and was really an attempt to make an end run around Proposition 13 (which limited the ability of counties to extort their property owning citizens for every last dime).