Posted on 04/19/2018 3:28:38 PM PDT by Hadean
Mayor Rahm Emanuel called on President Donald Trump’s Justice Department Thursday to hand over grant money to Chicago, after a panel of federal judges said the funds can’t be withheld from so-called sanctuary cities.
The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago upheld a nationwide injunction prohibiting Attorney General Jeff Sessions from requiring cities give immigration agents access to undocumented immigrants in their lock-ups in order to get certain public safety grants.
Emanuel quickly called an afternoon news conference at City Hall to trumpet his latest win in the city’s lawsuit to stop the Trump administration from withholding the money.
“The Trump Justice Department could actually say ‘OK, we’re going to go forward with these grants, and let’s fight the case out in court,’ ” Emanuel said, flanked by a crowd of aldermen and city lawyers. “But they refuse to give municipalities like Chicago and other cities around the country the resources to fight crime and gun violence, because they think fighting us on the principle of being a sanctuary, welcoming city, is more important than helping the police departments get the technology they need to do a better job in public safety.”
And Democratic U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin applauded the court decision, saying Trump’s policy pressured “local communities to join in the president’s mass deportation agenda.”
The judges’ stongly worded ruling stated that America’s Founding Fathers understood a concentration of power “threatens individual liberty” and established the separation of powers as “a bulwark against such tyranny.”
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I would think the President is in his rights to withhold the money until SCOTUS weighs in.
It will be appealed.
Hell, Rahm woild have been shot the first time he stepped out as a ballerina!
Hey Rahm, the government doesnt HAVE to give you a dime. Keep that in mind.
Keeping an eye on Gorsuch too.
So long as power is concentrated in the judiciary, they mouth piously about not concentrating it anywhere else?
One penny a day.
The rebellion continues.
People keep treating judges like they are gods making sacred decrees and the other branches of government are only allowed to make recommendations.
Judge Henry Leininwebber
Correction first is name is Harry not Henry
I’d withold the funds anyway.
Ask the judges to point out constitutional mandate to fund illegal aliens.
Then tell Rahm “What will you do, dance at me in a tutu? Only works in bathouses, dude.”
President TRUMP to Rahm Emanuel “ HEY RAHM; GO F#CK YOURSELF”.
They can be impeached.
Can't wait to hear these same judges defend the individual's right to an AR-15.
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