In 100th lawsuit against Trump, California challenges immigration arrests near courthouses
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Set us as preferred California sued the Trump administration for the 100th time in under two years Thursday, challenging the practice of U.S.Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arresting people for alleged civil immigration violations at or near state courthouses.California Atty.
Gen.Rob Bonta said such arrests have long been barred because they are unconstitutional and deeply disruptive to the rule of law and the rights of victims, witnesses, defendants and other parties to court proceedings.“We’ve seen serious criminal charges dropped and entire cases jeopardized because victims and witnesses are too scared to come to the courthouse to testify,” Bonta said.
“Our justice system cannot function this way.”Bonta said his office having to take the Trump administration to court 100 times in less than two years, often alongside other Democrat-led states, was a “sobering milestone” and a reflection not of political interference on California’s part — as the president and his supporters have cast it — but of Trump’s nearly unbridled lawlessness.“It’s very troubling when the most powerful person on the planet and the president of our country is the one trampling over the Constitution, breaking the law so blatantly and brazenly, so consistently, so frequently,” Bonta said.Independent legal experts said several factors have driven the wave of lawsuits.Politics Federal officials have given California election officials 48 hours to prove the citizenship of voters flagged as potential noncitizens, or withhold their ballots.Presidents from both parties have increasingly flexed their executive power, and state attorneys general have increasingly sued in response.
During Trump’s first term in office, California — under the leadership of then-Atty.Gen.
Xavier Becerra, a current gubernatorial candidate ...