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The Tenth Amendment to the US Constitution and its relation to state sovereignty.
Sanctuary cities do not create federal immunity; they are local or state policies that limit some forms of cooperation with federal immigration authorities and expand access to services for noncitizen...
and the cities of and have framed their lawsuit as a constitutional check on what they call an unlawful, politically motivated “,” arguing it violates the First and s, federal statutory requirements s...
The federal government under has repeatedly threatened to withhold a broad array of “federal funding” from jurisdictions labeled as or states, with announcements ranging from an across‑the‑board cutof...
The federal government cannot commandeer state and local officers to carry out federal immigration enforcement because of the Tenth Amendment and the Supreme Court’s anti‑commandeering decisions, but ...
The is a constitutional principle that forbids the federal government from ordering state legislatures or officials to administer or enforce federal regulatory programs, grounded in the and a line of ...
State lawsuits challenging the federalization of have relied heavily on two legal constraints: the , which limits the use of federal military forces for domestic law enforcement absent express authori...
Multiple coordinated lawsuits—brought by , and St. Paul, and individual Minnesotans—challenge on constitutional and statutory grounds, and courts have produced a mix of emergency relief, partial injun...
Federal and appellate courts have broadly constrained recent presidential orders to federalize state National Guard units, finding legal limits on using federal Title 10 authority to put Guard troops ...
The core legal question is whether President Trump can lawfully invoke the Insurrection Act, withhold federal funds, or otherwise deploy federal forces in Minnesota to suppress protests linked to ICE ...
Federal courts since 2010 have repeatedly constrained the practical power of , finding that detainers are non‑mandatory requests, that holding someone beyond their release can constitute a new, warran...
The U.S. Constitution authorizes federal action "to provide for the ... general Welfare" through Congress’s taxing and spending power, but it does not create an explicit individual right to guaranteed...
The Act centralizes federal standards for state driver’s licenses and ID cards, producing a sustained constitutional and political dispute over whether has commandeered a core state function and there...
Since 2020 the federal government has reignited a multi-pronged legal campaign against so‑called sanctuary jurisdictions that includes civil lawsuits asking courts to invalidate local and state restri...
Minnesota’s lawsuit seeks to halt “Operation Metro Surge,” arguing the mass deployment of DHS agents inflicted concrete harms on the state and violated multiple constitutional and statutory provisions...
The user almost certainly means “sanctuary” cities (not “sanction art”), a label for local or state policies that limit cooperation with federal immigration enforcement; those policies are not defined...
Since 2020 a patchwork of federal lawsuits, state actions and congressional probes have scrutinized ICE and CBP for detaining or deporting people who claim U.S. citizenship, with advocates and states ...
Since 2014, sanctuary jurisdictions have relied on a mix of local ordinances, state laws, judicial rulings and constitutional doctrines to refuse or limit honoring ICE detainer requests and to push ba...