Any ruling he makes is appealed to the 9th Circuit, which had no part in Orrick's decision as Trump suggested.
The decision was being closely watched in Seattle, which filed its own lawsuit against the order in March.
In his ruling, Orrick said Trump's January 25 order targeted broad categories of federal funding for the sanctuary cities and that plaintiffs challenging it were likely to succeed in proving it unconstitutional.
But Orrick said in his ruling that the president can not set new conditions on spending approved by Congress.
The first comment was evidence that the administration intended the executive order to apply broadly to all sorts of federal funding, and not a relatively small pot of grant money as the Department of Justice had argued, the judge said. In his ruling, Orrick said the language of the order made it clear it sought to withhold funds beyond law enforcement.
During the campaign, he called Judge Gonzalo Curiel, a sitting federal judge in California who was overseeing a lawsuit against Trump University, a "hater" and a "Mexican", saying his heritage meant he could not impartially oversee the case because of Trump's tough immigration policies.
"This is why we have courts - to halt the overreach of a president and an attorney general who either don't understand the Constitution or chose to ignore it", Herrera said in a statement. The Supreme Court heard just 11 cases from the 9th Circuit that same year, PolitiFact said, and overturned eight of them.
The ruling from U.S. District Judge William Orrick III in San Francisco said Trump's order targeted broad categories of federal funding for sanctuary governments and that plaintiffs challenging the order were likely to succeed in proving it unconstitutional.
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"Half of murders in NY are gang-related with illegal immigrants involved", he said.
Dozens of local governments and cities, including New York, Los Angeles and Chicago, have joined the "sanctuary" movement. Trump tweeted Wednesday morning. "It's building that relationship that made NY the safest big city in America".
On Tuesday de Blasio said Trump was "going beyond his authority when he tries to cut vital funding to cities that don't share his illogical and unconstitutional desire to scapegoat immigrants".
White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer's office slammed the decision in a statement as an "egregious overreach by a single, unelected district judge".
It also said the ruling is a gift to the criminal gang and cartel element in our country, empowering the worst kind of human trafficking and sex trafficking, and putting thousands of innocent lives at risk.
Orrick in his ruling yesterday said the president was "exceeding his constitutional authority" by trying to punish local governments that refuse to cooperate with his immigration policies. Appeals from Orrick's court go to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, the same one that blocked the president's initial executive order banning entry into the United States by individuals from seven majority Muslim countries.
The Department of Justice said Tuesday that it will continue to enforce a federal law that forbids communities from blocking reports on people's immigration status to federal authorities. "These cities are engaged in the unsafe and unlawful nullification of Federal law in an attempt to erase our borders", the White House said in a statement.
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