Here’s the Deal On Sanctuary Cities
The the 9th circuit court overturned Trump’s harebrained decision to withdraw federal money for law enforcement from cities that he considers sanctuary cities.
The judge ruled that wasn’t constitutional because …
The Constitution vests the spending powers in Congress, not the President, so the Order cannot constitutionally place new conditions on federal funds. Further, the Tenth Amendment requires that conditions on federal funds be unambiguous and timely made; that they bear some relation to the funds at issue; and that the total financial incentive not be coercive.
I imagine the average fifth grader could understand that.
I want to stop right here and say one damn thing: Republicans do not, no matter what they repeatedly say, support the Constitution. They try to make laws against it and now they want to hold constitutional conventions to re-write the whole damn thing. (I suspect the role of Thomas Jefferson will be played by Donald Trump.)
Trump’s lawyers, who understood it perfectly well, tried to say that they agree with the judge completely because they, you know, went to law school. So they argued that, “the January order was intended to be largely symbolic.” Oh dear, Judges aren’t real big on symbolic stuff and this judge called it an “ominous, misleading, and ultimately toothless threat.”
Holy damn cow. I, for one, am pleased as punch that we finally have a court ruling saying Presidents can’t go around threatening people with his tiny little hands.
Then Trump tells the judge, “See you in court!” which is also the favored weapon of tiny little hands.
The Sean Hannity goes on the electric teevee and says that the 9th circuit is the most overturned court in America, probably because it’s in San Francisco. Hmmmmm, wildly incorrect, of course. The most overturned is the 6th Circuit in Tennessee, Ohio, and Kentucky – Trump’s base. A very close second is 11th Circuit, which is parts of Alabama, Georgia, and Florida.
The whole thing was a bustermuck.
Thanks to everybody for the heads up.
Funny how Republicans only cry “state’s rights” when someone’s trying to make them adhere to common standards of fairness and decency…
1Did Hannity actually say the 11th–was he mistakenly honest?
2Can’t remember who said recently that GOPs like to cherrypick which parts of the Constitution they’ll follow because they’re used to doing that with their Bible, but it was very good and I’ve stolen it. Thank you.
They love the Constitution except the parts they don’t. Sorta like they love America but can’t stand half the people who live here.
3No, Craig, my mistake. He said the 9th. I corrected it.
4What’s ironic is California is one of those states that give the federal government more money than they get back. Maybe they should write up a state law that cuts the federal government off from California’s money until Trump is impeached.
5@Miz JJ
6I heard that “most overturned” comment yesterday. First, I wondered “Who would keep such a score?” then I realized it was not a quantitative assessment but a qualitative one. And click bait. And fodder for those who already believe that “liberal judges” are keeping “me” from enjoying the success that I so richly deserve. The “liberal judges” not I am not smart enough or that I am lazy or that I am unwilling to do that which must be done in an endeavor for my own success. “Liberal judges” stopped me.
Huffington Post states that it wasn’t the 9th Circuit Court, but a U.S. District judge who made the ruling, which, if true, would blow a hole in Trump’s bluster ballon.
7I’d like somebody to blow a hole on Trump. Just stick a big pin in his bloated frame and watch him fly around the room backwards spewing ego and ignorance until he sags to the floor as a little flat thing with eyeballs and bad hair.
8Like I’ve said before, it was the late Antonin Scalia who wrote that decision for SCOTUS. That man really liked the 10th Amendment! And he did not like the federal government muscling state and local governments. One of the few rare times when I could agree with the man.
9EVERYONE cherrypicks…remember “states’ rights” in the Sixties? THEN it was a bad thing!
10“GOPs like to cherrypick which parts of the Constitution they’ll follow because they’re used to doing that with their Bible.” Absolutely. The biggest reason for young people leaving churches and becoming “nones?” Hateful wingnuts who’ve created a god in their own image that hates the same people they do.
11“See you in court!” is preferable to his usual bullying tactics.
No I don’t think he’s on a learning curve. I’m merely illustrating a common observation: accidents happen — anbd this is an accident on his part.
He’s still as dangerous as ever.
12Gee, I seem to remember when Obama was going to pass a gun control law and all these same “people” were saying they would have their local yokel cops arrest any federal agents that showed up in their states.
13Greg Abbott started it.
14Of course they believe in the Constitution.
The imaginary, rewritten one that lives in their heads.
Right next to their imaginary Bible.
15I’m gonna tell Mama what buster muck really means.
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