JEFF SESSIONS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/SANCTUARY CITIES/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration, escalating its fight with so-called sanctuary cities, asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday [6-18-18] to narrow a lower court’s nationwide order preventing the federal government from denying public safety grants to municipalities that limit cooperation on immigration enforcement. The Justice Department asked the high court to make the injunction issued by a federal judge in Chicago cover only that city and not the entire country. Republican President Donald Trump’s administration has gone on an offensive against Democratic-governed cities and states that protect illegal immigrants as part of his hard-line immigration policies. The Justice Department said the injunction ‘strays far beyond the traditional, proper role of federal courts.’ The justices likely will ask the city of Chicago for a response before deciding on the request. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has criticized lower courts for imposing nationwide injunctions against some of the administration’s most contentious policies.”
-Andrew Chung, “Trump administration seeks to limit court’s ‘sanctuary cities’ order,” Reuters, June 18, 2018 11:13 am