The Department of Justice cannot dole out federal funding based on whether jurisdictions follow sanctuary city policies, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.
The city of Los Angeles filed a lawsuit against Attorney General Jeff Sessions after he announced a crackdown on sanctuary laws, which allow local law enforcement to decline to work with federal immigration agencies. The city claimed that Sessions was abusing his power by basing funding decisions on whether local agencies cooperated with demands to increase immigration policy enforcement, Bloomberg reports. The district judge agreed with Los Angeles, saying that the Justice Department shouldn't give extra grant money to cities that don't employ sanctuary policies.
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