The Ninth Circuit (Circus) Rules That Local Politicians Do Not Have the Right to Block Presidents From Deporting Illegals

Obviously.

The bad news: the Ninth Circuit just got round to ruling on this 2019 case.

That's how they'll block Trump's deportations: Local communists will assert the right to overrule the elected president, and leftwing courts will take five years to tell them they don't have that power.

The federal government has the authority to deport foreign nationals in the U.S. illegally over the objection of local authorities, a panel of three judges on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously ruled.

The 29-page ruling was written by Judge Daniel Bress, with judges Michael Hawkins and Richard Clinton concurring.

At issue is an April 2019 executive order issued by King County Executive Dow Constantine, which directed county officials to prohibit fixed base operators on a county airfield near Seattle from servicing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement charter flights used to deport illegal foreign nationals.

Constantine's order prohibited King County International Airport from supporting "the transportation and deportation of immigration detainees in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, either traveling within or arriving or departing the United States or its territories."

The airport is located next to a major ICE-Seattle base of operations.

The Trump administration at the time sued, arguing Constantine's order violated the Supremacy Clause's intergovernmental immunity doctrine and a World War II-era Instrument of Transfer agreement allowing the federal government to use the airport in King County.

A district court agreed, ruling in favor of the federal government. King County next appealed to the Ninth Circuit.

The Ninth Circuit panel affirmed the district court's summary judgment that the order violated the Supremacy Clause and the Instrument of Transfer agreement.

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With King County, as a so-called "sanctuary county," Constantine argues its region "has acted decisively to become more inclusive, removing barriers to affordable housing, transit, health, economic opportunity and promoting strong childhood development for everyone." The county has also set its "region apart as a leader in protecting the rights of all people in our communities, and continues to not tolerate discrimination, harassment, expressions of hate, or any behavior intended to promote fear, intimidation, or isolation," he says.

Constantine's argument was ideological, according to the order, stating federal "deportations raise deeply troubling human rights concerns which are inconsistent with the values of King County, including separations of families, increases of racial disproportionality in policing, deportations of people into unsafe situations in other countries, and constitutional concerns of due process."

"I don't like this policy and I voted against the man implementing it" is not a constitutional argument, jerkoff.

posted by Ace at 05:45 PM

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