Posted on 05/05/2018 12:09:36 PM PDT by jazusamo
California has asked a judge to dismiss the Trump administration's lawsuit concerning the state’s sanctuary laws that protect immigrants in the country illegally, Bloomberg reported.
According to a court filing from Friday, California is arguing that its targeted laws “are consistent with the federal constitutional and legislative framework governing immigration enforcement,” Bloomberg reported.
“California’s laws work in concert – not conflict – with federal laws and are fully constitutional,” California Attorney General Xavier Becerra said in a statement. “The 10th Amendment of the Constitution gives the people of California, not the Trump administration, the power to decide how we will provide for the public safety and general welfare of our state.”
“The federal government has no grounds to intrude on California’s constitutional authority to enact laws designed to protect its people,” Becerra added.
Federal officials filed a lawsuit in March saying that the California legislature passed three laws that violated federal immigration law and the Constitution’s supremacy clause that gives federal laws primacy over state laws.
California’s laws are designed to allow local law enforcement and business owners not to cooperate with federal agents on detainer requests. It also created a state inspection program to monitor federal detention centers and bars California police and sheriffs from asking about a detainee’s immigration status.
Becerra said that California's laws do not undermine federal officials’ ability to enforce immigration laws.
The attorney general's office argues that taking down its sanctuary laws would weaken the trust of law enforcement among the immigrant community, reduce workplace productivity and lead to inhumane treatment for people in detention facilities.
The two good judges we have — Ellis on the Manafort case and Sullivan on the Flynn case — are both black.
“The 10th Amendment of the Constitution gives the people of California, not the Trump administration, the power to decide how we will provide for the public safety and general welfare of our state.”
Wasn’t there a court case over the Arizona immigration law, in which courts decided, that the federal government, not individual states, have the ultimate authority in the area of immigration?
And if that’s true, these liberals can’t have it both ways. You can’t say, on the one hand, in the case of Arizona, federal laws trump state laws dealing with illegals. But then on the other hand, in California, say state laws on immigration override the applicable federal laws.
And it’s funny to see someone who we know is liberal, to invoke the 10th amendment on anything.
Their whims are the law for the Death to America Democrat Party.
Ellis is not black; I don’t know about Sullivan.
Ellis is Black.
So which judge did they ask? Seems to me that that would be important information.
“Ellis is Black.”
You’ve got the wrong Ellis!
Ronald Ellis of the Federal Court for the Southern District of New York IS BLACK. but TS Ellis of the Federal Court in Virginia IS WHITE!
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra
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Initials in ‘Latino’ = XB
Translated to ‘’Merican’ = BS
People have been getting that confused because articles about Ellis often have the defendant pictured.
T.S. Ellis, III is a Senior U.S. District Judge in the Eastern District of Virginia. He was appointed to the federal bench by President Reagan in 1987. Judge Ellis, after graduating from Princeton with an engineering degree (B.S.E. 1961), served as an aviator in the U.S. Navy from 1961-67, attaining the rank of Lieutenant. He then studied law at Harvard (J.D. 1967, Knox Fellowship 1969-1970) and Oxford (Diploma of Law 1970). Thereafter, he was a litigation partner in private practice with the Virginia-based international law firm of Hunton and Williams from 1969-87. He is the author of numerous articles in law reviews and journals and has served as a lecturer at Georgetown Law School and the College of William and Mary.
Harboring illegal aliens is a felony but goober magoo decides to take Kalifornia to court instead...
Sessions is doing a bang up job, isn’t he folks? /s
“The 10th Amendment of the Constitution gives the people of California, not the Trump administration, the power to decide how we will provide for the public safety and general welfare of our state.”
The 10th Amendment specifically states:
“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.”
Yet the Constitution SPECIFICALLY states:
“Article I, Section 8, Clause 4 does read, “… To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, …”.
And the Supreme Court has upheld, on numerous occasions (most recently concerning Arizona) the Feds have exclusive authority over immigration of any kind. To include illegal immigration.
Becerra’s argument is an emotional farce. And eventually the Federal Courts will show that.
National security is federal.
Immigration is federal. Citizenship is granted at federal level. Customs is federa. Border patrol is federal.
Lock these clowns up.
Wikipedia picture and bio of Emmet G. Sullivan shows him to be black (IMO).
So the black guy on google is a defendant?
US Magistrate Judge Kendall Newman, United States District Court for the Eastern District of California is handling the DOJ lawsuit against the CA sanctuary laws.
Strange definitions of concert, conflict, and Constitutional.
In the tortured logic of the Left, conflict IS concert with the law. After all, if the law is not tested, how can it be proven to be Constitutional?
And with the “correct” interpretation of “constitutional”, just about anything may be shoved under that broad umbrella.
Bump!
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