The Patriot Post® · Thursday Opinion

Today’s Editors’ Choice

• Gary Bauer: Robed Radicals
• Hans von Spakovsky: Why Judge Orrick’s Ruling Won’t Block Federal Action on Sanctuary Cities
• Victor Davis Hanson: Will 2020 Be Another 1972 for Democrats?

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Opinion in Brief

Hans von Spakovsky: “It seems that [Judge William Orrick] has issued an injunction against his own imaginary view that the government would use Section 9(a) to cut off a broad range of federal entitlement funding, instead of simply the discretionary grant programs at the Justice Department and the Department of Homeland Security. Thus, the exception to the injunction described by Orrick seems to allow the Trump administration to go ahead with what it has actually been planning to do all along: cut off eligibility to grant programs like the two specifically mentioned by the inspector general in his 2016 memorandum that already require compliance with Section 1373. So while this injunction order has been painted as a big loss for the administration, it actually doesn’t seem to fit that definition. Sanctuary cities are still going to suffer the consequences of their lawless behavior. They’ll lose some federal discretionary funds from the Justice Department and the Department of Homeland Security.”