The Trump Administration is again cracking down on the lawless city of Los Angeles, this time over city officials’ refusal to follow fundamental immigration law.
Fox News’s Matt Finn reported Monday that the Trump DOJ has sued LA Mayor Karen Bass and City Council officials for the city’s sanctuary city policy and the violent riots that broke out weeks ago.
The lawsuit says that LA’s policy of coddling illegal aliens and refusing to turn them over to ICE violates federal law and that direct confrontation with the federal government was inevitable. The suit also notes that L.A. “rushed with urgency” to codify sanctuary law right after Trump was nominated, thwarting what Americans had voted for.
Breaking: Trump DOJ sues LA Mayor Karen Bass & city council for sanctuary policy and recent riots.
DOJ says sanctuary policy is illegal and the direct confrontation with Feds was inevitable.
Lawsuit says L.A. rushed with urgency to codify sanctuary law after Trump was…
— Matt Finn (@MattFinnFNC) June 30, 2025
What LA is doing violates the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution because it refuses to treat federal law enforcement the same as local law enforcement.
Per Bill Melugin of Fox News, here is an excerpt of the lawsuit explaining exactly how:
Sanctuary City laws and policies are designed to deliberately impede federal immigration officers’ ability to carry out their responsibilities in those jurisdictions. The Los Angeles Ordinance and other policies intentionally discriminate against the Federal Government by treating federal immigration authorities differently than other law enforcement agents through access restrictions both to property and to individual detainees, by prohibiting contractors and sub-contractors from providing information, and by disfavoring federal criminal laws that the City of Los Angeles has decided not to comply with.
The Supremacy Clause prohibits the City of Los Angeles and its officials from singling out the Federal Government for adverse treatment—as the challenged law and policies do—thereby discriminating against the Federal Government. Accordingly, the law and policies challenged here are invalid and should be enjoined.
BREAKING: The Trump Department of Justice has just filed a lawsuit against the city of Los Angeles, arguing its sanctuary policies violate the Supremacy Clause by intentionally discriminating against the federal gov by treating federal immigration officers differently than other… pic.twitter.com/uUWcFWAqGA
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) June 30, 2025
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi spoke to Melugin following the announcement of the suit.
“Sanctuary policies were the driving cause of the violence, chaos, and attacks on law enforcement that Americans recently witnessed in Los Angeles, she said.” Jurisdictions like Los Angeles that flout federal law by prioritizing illegal aliens over American citizens are undermining law enforcement at every level – it ends under President Trump.”
One can bet we will get an angry, childish tweet from worthless Governor Gavin Newsom later today.
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