A federal court has blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order on sanctuary cities on the grounds that it is unconstitutional, in another legal setback for the administration.
The nationwide injunction granted on Tuesday by a federal judge in San Francisco will prevent the executive order, signed just days after Mr Trump’s inauguration, from being enforced while its legal merits are debated.
“This is a very aggressive use of the injunction authority,” said Leon Fresco, an immigration lawyer who served in the Department of Justice under President Barack Obama, “ . . . using the president and attorney-general’s statements to presume the worst possible interpretation of the sanctuary city executive order.”
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