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On 12/2/24 13:49, max headroom wrote:
County in Washington State Cannot Block ICE Deportation Flights, Appeals Court
Rules
A federal court has struck down King County's ban on ICE deportation flights, citing federal supremacy and breach of contractual obligations.
A federal appeals court has ruled that an order in King County, Washington, barring U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from using a Seattle-area
airport to deport illegal immigrants from the country is unlawful, affirming a
lower court's summary judgment and clearing the way for the removals to continue.
Judge Daniel A. Bress of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit wrote
in the Nov. 29 opinion that a 2019 executive order issued by King County Executive Dow Constantine that prohibited the ICE deportation flights was unlawful. The ruling identified two primary legal violations: discrimination against federal operations under the supremacy clause of the U.S. Constitution
and breach of a World War II-era instrument of transfer agreement governing the
airport's use.
Bress wrote that the executive order's flight ban "discriminatorily burdens the
United States" in the enforcement of federal immigration law and that this "discrimination, plain on the face of the Order, contravenes the intergovernmental immunity doctrine." Rooted in the supremacy clause, the intergovernmental immunity doctrine protects federal government operations from
discriminatory or obstructive actions by state and local governments.
And yet, it appears the idiot Washington Democrats seem headed towards appointing stupid Dow Constantine to head the University of Washington!
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