Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is throwing a mood tantrum after a decide thwarted his plans to single out sanctuary cities.
“I directed states who want federal DOT money to comply with federal immigration laws,” Duffy wrote by way of X on Friday. “But, no surprise, an Obama-appointed judge has ruled that states can openly defy our federal immigration laws. This is judicial activism pure & simple and I will continue to fight in the courts.”
The Obama-appointed decide Duffy is complaining about is U.S. District Choose John McConnell, who dominated towards Trump’s appointee after 20 states sued over the petty “Duffy Directive.” The directive refers to a handful of actions and coverage adjustments that target rescinding rules and grants round local weather change, range and fairness, and environmental justice, of which immigration and sanctuary cities clearly fall beneath.
“Congress did not authorize or grant authority to the Secretary of Transportation to impose immigration enforcement conditions on federal dollars specifically appropriated for transportation purposes,” he wrote in his preliminary injunction.
In different phrases, McConnell is asking what everybody else is: why is the man from MTV’s “Road Rules” making an attempt to make calls on what states do with immigrants?
Shouldn’t he, perhaps, be specializing in his precise job of constructing certain that the airways are protected for vacationers and plane operators?
Then once more, when Duffy was alleged to be all arms on deck final month following one other Federal Aviation Administration catastrophe, he appeared significantly preoccupied with enjoying inside decorator and putting a portray of Jesus at a Marine Academy.
In Might, Duffy and Kristi Noem’s Division of Homeland Safety each pulled a now generally used trick out of President Donald Trump’s playbook and determined to withhold billions of {dollars} in funding to sanctuary cities that weren’t cooperating with ICE.
On Duffy’s aspect, this meant that cities weren’t receiving federal funding for initiatives like bridges, street repairs, and different essential infrastructure initiatives. As for Noem, her division was withholding funding for catastrophe restoration and cybersecurity grants.
And whereas McConnell has shut down the “Duffy Directive,” Noem’s assault remains to be hanging over the sanctuary cities’ heads because the Trump administration continues to plow via their mass deportation efforts.
