re: UPDATED: Federal court rules Trump admin can withhold grants to NYC, 7 states over c

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The Trump administration can withhold millions of dollars in law enforcement grants to force states to cooperate with U.S. immigration enforcement, a federal appeals court in New York ruled Wednesday in a decision that conflicted with three other federal appeals courts.

The decision by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan overturned a lower court's decision ordering the administration to release funding to New York City and seven states — New York, Connecticut, New Jersey, Washington, Massachusetts, Virginia and Rhode Island.

The states and city sued the U.S. government after the Justice Department announced in 2017 that it would withhold grant money from cities and states until they gave federal immigration authorities access to jails and provide advance notice when someone in the country illegally is about to be released.

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I can't take all of this winning for America!!!

I really don’t understand what the big deal about withholding money from the state is. I seem to remember when I was younger that the state of Louisiana had a drinking age of 18 and the federal government came in and said unless you move your drinking age to 21 we will withhold millions of dollars of federal funds and nothing was said. The state ended up moving the drinking age to 21.

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I mean the FEDs withheld money and to raise the drinking age to 21, How is this any different.

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Just about every Federal grant has a very long list of weasel wording that allows the executive branch to pull funding.

The lower court judge must be a total hack.

Selling my stock in the salt mines because there is about to be an oversupply