Litigation
Cal. Litig. 2017, Volume 30, Number 3
Content
- A Transitional Center: The California Supreme Court 2016 - 2017
- Book Review of Give Us The Ballot: The Modern Struggle For Voting Rights in America by Ari Berman
- Editor's Foreword: The Curtain Rises for the CLA
- From the Section Chair
- Give Your Persuasive Writing A Diamond's Sparkle
- How To Lose Your Appeal During Trial
- Litigation Section Executive Committee Past Chairs
- Masthead
- MCLE Test Questions for Self-Study Test (1 hour of credit)
- Past Editors-in-Chief
- Table of Contents
- The ABC's of the TCPA
- The Closing Statement For The Defense
- The Party Line: Gerrymandering at the Supreme Court
- San Francisco v. Trump: Defending Our Sanctuary City
San Francisco v. Trump: Defending Our Sanctuary City
By Mollie Lee, Sara Eisenberg, and Molly Alarcon
On the campaign trail, candidate Donald Trump repeatedly threatened to cut federal funding from "sanctuary cities," local jurisdictions that limit assistance with federal immigration enforcement. Five days after assuming office, President Trump followed through on his threat by issuing Executive Order 13,768, directing defunding and enforcement actions against sanctuary cities.
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San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera was prepared to resist. We filed San Francisco v. Trump in late January, making San Francisco the first jurisdiction to challenge President Trump’s sanctuary city Executive Order. In April, we obtained a nationwide preliminary injunction; in July, we defeated a motion to dismiss and motion to reconsider the preliminary injunction. When Attorney General Jefferson Sessions tried a related tactic to defund sanctuary cities in August, we promptly filed a new suit challenging that.