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BumRushDaShow

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Thu Jun 19, 2025, 06:37 PM Jun 19

Judge blocks Trump plan to tie states' transportation funds to immigration enforcement

Last edited Thu Jun 19, 2025, 07:28 PM - Edit history (1)

Source: The Guardian

Thu 19 Jun 2025 17.51 EDT


A federal judge on Thursday blocked Donald Trump’s administration from forcing 20 Democratic-led states to cooperate with immigration enforcement in order to receive billions of dollars in transportation grant funding.

Chief US District Judge John McConnell in Providence, Rhode Island, granted the states’ request for an injunction barring the Department of Transportation’s policy, saying the states were likely to succeed on the merits of some or all of their claims. The Trump administration did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The ruling came in a lawsuit filed by a group of Democratic state attorneys general who argued the administration was seeking to unlawfully hold federal funds hostage to coerce them into adhering to Trump’s hardline immigration agenda.

The states argued the US transportation secretary, Sean Duffy, lacked the authority to impose immigration-enforcement conditions on funding that Congress appropriated to help states sustain roads, highways, bridges and other transportation projects.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/19/transportation-funds-immigration-enforcement-trump-lawsuit



Link to Attorney General of California PRESS RELEASE - Attorney General Bonta Secures Preliminary Injunction in Lawsuit Challenging Unlawful Immigration Enforcement Conditions on Grant Funding

Link to RULING (PDF) - https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/attachments/press-docs/gov.uscourts.rid_.59601.57.0.pdf
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Judge blocks Trump plan to tie states' transportation funds to immigration enforcement (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Jun 19 OP
I had covered some aspects of this question about moniss Jun 19 #1
This story has been buried under all the other nightmares BumRushDaShow Jun 19 #2
Much appreciated. nt moniss Jun 19 #3

moniss

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1. I had covered some aspects of this question about
Thu Jun 19, 2025, 06:55 PM
Jun 19

whether funding can be pulled between states and Feds for things like Transportation projects etc. the other day.

https://democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=20404610

BumRushDaShow

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2. This story has been buried under all the other nightmares
Thu Jun 19, 2025, 07:26 PM
Jun 19

and I have been hunting around to get a copy of the ruling to add to the OP. Finally found something via a press release from the CA AG. Adding now...

ETA - here is a copy of the decision - https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/attachments/press-docs/gov.uscourts.rid_.59601.57.0.pdf

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