Trump's approach to sanctuary cities began with an Executive Order aimed at combating what he termed the interference of these jurisdictions with federal law enforcement operations. The order instructed federal officials to cut funding to these cities, reflecting a broader strategy during his presidency to enforce stricter immigration policies against perceived obstruction.
At the preliminary hearing, Judge Thomas Stevens sided with a defense theory that the shooting was accidental and ordered Angelo Ray to stand trial for involuntary manslaughter, not murder.
This ruling does not stand for the proposition that Meta's use of copyrighted materials to train its language models is lawful, but only that these plaintiffs made wrong arguments.
Judge James Boasberg's ruling reflects Kafka's bureaucratic absurdity, upholding the Trump administration's control denial over prisoners despite their direct involvement in their detention.
Today's judgment is clear, just as it was last year, that these laws should never have been made. They were a flagrant abuse of power from a government determined to shut down protesters they did not personally agree with.
"Absent an injunction freezing the status quo - preserving the agency's data, its operational capacity, and its workforce - there is a substantial risk that the defendants will complete the destruction of the agency completely in violation of law well before the Court can rule on the merits, and it will be impossible to rebuild."