Trump adviser: coronavirus relief aid threat to 'sanctuary cities' could happen

[Judi Lynn]

Martin Pengelly and agencies
@MartinPengelly
Sun 3 May 2020 13.47 EDT

White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow has not ruled out any element in the next potential coronavirus relief bill, including more money for state and local governments and the small business programme.

But he added that the White House was in “kind of a pause period”, while hinting that Donald Trump’s threat to link aid to concessions on immigration policy could yet be attempted.

“Regarding the states,” Kudlow told CNN’s State of the Union, “as you know, the president has from time to time spoken about linking that to sanctuary cities. I don’t think anything’s been decided yet.”

Sanctuary cities, mostly run by Democratic authorities, do not comply with federal attempts to detain and deport undocumented migrants under Trump’s hardline immigration approach.

More:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/03/trump-adviser-larry-kudlow-coronavirus-relief-aid-sanctuary-cities

[turbinetree]

1. Where in a "pause period" phase..................got it.........how fucking comforting..............

going for the "blackmail phase period" is now in the works...............during a pandemic............got it...............

[riversedge]

2. article: Fed appeals Court nixes Trump policy of tying grants to enforcement..........

It could go to the US SC. Leave it to trump to take it there!


https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213382018#post2


Court nixes Trump policy of tying grants to enforcement

https://apnews.com/55914ffab6ddb3c1eb1e48bc1b91ea1e
By MICHAEL TARMApril 30, 2020


FILE - In this April 1, 2020, file photo, Attorney General William Barr speaks about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington. A sharply worded ruling by a federal appeals court in Chicago on Thursday said the Trump administration policy of threatening to withhold grant money from so-called sanctuary cities to force them to comply with its more stringent immigration policies violates the separation-of-powers provisions enshrined the U.S. Constitution. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

CHICAGO (AP) — A sharply worded ruling by a federal appeals court in Chicago on Thursday said the Trump administration policy of threatening to withhold grant money from so-called sanctuary cities to force them to comply with its more stringent immigration policies violates separation-of-powers provisions enshrined in the U.S. Constitution.

The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals also said a freeze of that policy should extend nationwide, rejecting arguments by U.S. Department of Justice lawyers that if an injunction were OKed in the case it should only apply to the city of Chicago.


Broad executive-branch powers on immigration matters don’t include withholding money allocated by the legislative branch to pressure cities and states to comply with an executive-branch policy, said Judge Ilana Rovner, who authored the 95-page ruling.

“Such a concentration of power,” she said, “would allow tyranny to flourish, and our system of government is wisely set up by the Founders to foreclose such a danger.”

She added: “The separation of powers is a foundation of our government, not a formality to be swept aside on the path to achieving goals that the executive branch deems worthy. … The (grant) conditions imposed here are an executive usurpation of the power of the purse.” ......................

[Newest Reality]

3. Kind of quid pro quo...

Give me my scapegoats, my pretty, or I'll cut your aid, too. Let me persecute the brown and throw babies in concentration camps or you get squat? During a pandemic? What?

Holding democrats hostage, huh? You scratch my leaking lesion, puss covered, death stench, infected back and I'll scratch yours?

Knock it off, General Cockwomble and crew.

We are really going to have to build and strengthen our blue coalitions and take this on.

[Ford_Prefect]

4. One more reason to call out the National Guard to protect the states.