California ICE Identification Law Draws Ninth Circuit Criticism

Ninth Circuit judges appeared to view a California law requiring law enforcement officers to identify themselves as an unconstitutional regulation of the federal government by the Golden State during oral arguments Tuesday.

The panel of judges from the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit weighed whether California’s No Vigilantes Act (SB 805) violates the US Constitution’s Supremacy Clause by directly regulating the work of federal officers.

California’s position is that the law should be put in the same category as speed limits, which generally apply to both state and federal agents, and that the law only ...