CALIFORNIA/IMMIGRATION/JEFF SESSIONS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/SANCTUARY CITIES: “The simmering battle between California and the Trump administration escalated Wednesday [3-7-18] with Attorney General Jeff Sessions and California Gov. Jerry Brown trading barbs over a new Justice Department lawsuit that seeks to strike down the state’s immigration laws…
For months now, Democratic-led California has positioned itself as a political, economic and legal foil to the Trump administration, and state leaders have sparred with federal officials over immigration in particular.
Mr. Sessions used his speech to the California Peace Officers’ Association to announce a new Justice Department lawsuit that challenges a trio of state immigration laws that impose various restrictions on federal and local law enforcement.
But Mr. Sessions went further, broadly denouncing California’s liberal-leaning politics…
The Justice Department’s lawsuit seeks to strike down three measures passed by California lawmakers last year. The laws limit local law-enforcement officials’ cooperation with federal immigration authorities; require employers to see a warrant or subpoena before allowing immigration-enforcement agents access to private areas of a business or confidential employment records; and allow state officials to inspect federal-immigration jails in the state.”
-Alicia A. Caldwell, “Jeff Sessions, Jerry Brown Clash Over California’s Immigration Laws,” The Wall Street Journal online, Mar. 7, 2018 04:19pm