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Last night, news broke that U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions and the U.S. Department of Justice are suing the state of California, Governor Jerry Brown, and California Attorney General Xavier Becerra over California’s sanctuary jurisdiction policies.

Prior to the development, the Federalist Society had lined up Professor Josh Blackman from Southern Texas College of Law to speak at McGeorge School of Law on the topic of President Trump’s travel ban. The new lawsuit derailed those plans, and he instead spoke about the lawsuit.

There are three California bills that are at play in the case: SB 54, AB 450, and AB 103. The common theme in the lawsuit with these three pieces of California legislation is the issue of preemption and whether or not these pieces of legislation interfere with federal law in ways that would create preemption issues.

That is where today’s two speaker, Prof. Blackman and McGeorge’s own Professor Clark Kelso differed. Enjoy the video of their conversation and the questions that are asked of them afterwards!