The Trump administration must provide New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority the nearly $34 million grant it awarded, but then pulled, due to New York City’s status as a sanctuary jurisdiction.
The withholding of the funds “is arbitrary, capricious, and a blatant violation of the law,” Judge Lewis A. Kaplan of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York said in a Thursday order granting a permanent injunction requiring the federal government to grant the funds to the MTA.
More than two dozen California localities are also suing the Trump administration for allegedly conditioning their receipt of grants ...
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