A day after a judge issued a decision to block the president's order to withhold funding from "sanctuary cities" that do not cooperate with US immigration officials, Trump said he would take his fight to the highest court, tweeting, "See you in the Supreme Court".
After previous setbacks to his immigration agenda, President Trump on Wednesday criticized a federal judge's ruling Tuesday that the commander-in-chief can not retaliate against so-called sanctuary cities by withholding funds, suggesting he'll take the case to the U.S. Supreme Court.
U.S. District Judge William H. Orrick granted the injunction Tuesday, blocking enforcement of the executive order Trump signed on January 25.
A California federal judge has blocked the Trump administration's threat to deny federal funding to sanctuary cities.
A Justice Department attorney, Chad Readler, previously defended the president's executive order as an attempt to use his "bully pulpit" to "encourage communities and states to comply with the law".
City Attorney Dennis Herrera talks about a federal judge's order blocking any attempt by the Trump administration to withhold money from "sanctuary cities "during a news conference at City Hall Tuesday, April 25, 2017, in San F".
"Plainly-worded" statements by Trump and his surrogates "betrayed the Executive Order's stated secular objective", one judge wrote, using language strikingly similar to Orrick's.
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The courts order drew a sharp reaction from Trump, who called it ridiculous.
Later today, Trump expressed similar sentiments after signing an unrelated executive order at the Department of Interior. The government, however, appealed against the decisions made by the judges. He said the Justice Department would require cities seeking the grants to certify that they are cooperating with immigration authorities as a condition for receiving the awards.
Even if the president could do so, those conditions would have to be clearly related to the funds at issue and not coercive, as the executive order appears to be, Orrick said.
"The court found the Trump administrations arguments were not legally plausible, and the court sided with us on every substantive issue".
The president lashes out at the Ninth Circuit, which is not the same as a district court that makes decisions appealable to the Ninth Circuit. Orrick wrote, "Federal funding that bears no meaningful relationship to immigration enforcement can not be threatened merely because a jurisdiction chooses an immigration enforcement strategy of which the president disapproves".
Trump added, "See you in the Supreme Court!"
The President's tweets echoed the scathing tone of a White House statement issued late Tuesday night, saying the ruling "undermines faith in our legal system and raises serious questions about circuit shopping" and called it "egregious overreach by a single, unelected district judge".
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