It’s been three months since U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions came to Sacramento to announce his lawsuit against the State of California challenging various provisions of the new sanctuary state law. I posted about my initial evaluation of the claims when Sessions announced the lawsuit. Tomorrow is a big hearing in federal
Live from Classroom A McGeorge School of Law, Prof. Josh Blackman discussing the new sanctuary jurisdiction lawsuit against California.
Posted by McGeorge Capital Center for Law & Policy on Wednesday, March 7, 2018
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
SB 54, which has been referred to as the “highest-profile act of defiance to Trump’s nascent presidency,” is indicative of the many ways in which opposition parties have declared war against President Trump’s immigration policies. It is a targeted response to the overlap between federal immigration enforcement and state and local law
