A federal judge on Friday turned down the Justice Department’s request to dramatically scale back the reach of an injunction he’d issued against the Trump administration’s targeting of so-called sanctuary cities.Last month, U.S. District Court Judge Harry Leinenweber granted the City of Chicago’s request for a nationwide block on the Justice Department’s plan to insist that cities and counties receiving public-safety grants allow immigration agents access to local jails and give local authorities advance notice when suspected illegal immigrants are about to be released from custody.Justice Department lawyers asked Leinenweber to stay his order so that it would benefit only Chicago and would not stop application of the proposed new requirements to other jurisdictions applying for public-safety funding known as Byrne-JAG grants.In a 17-page order issued Friday afternoon, Leinenweber, of the U.S.
Judge Won't Limit Order Blocking Trump Anti-sanctuary Policy
jgerstein@politico.com (Josh Gerstein), Politico
Fri, 10/13/2017 - 3:16pm
Topics: u.s district court judge harry leinenweber chicago s northern district illinois jag president donald trump s supreme court chicago mayor rahm emanuel u.s circuit court appeals justice department s leinenweber u.s district court court city chicago justice department attorney general s the attorney general the attorney general s supreme court order blocking anti-sanctuary policy injunction nationwide authority issued stay request state conduct country majority friday wrote public-safety aspect jurisdictions local federal declined asked
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