A King County, Wash. order hindering US Immigration and Customs Enforcement from using a Seattle-area airport to remove noncitizens from the country is unlawful, the Ninth Circuit said Friday.
The 2019 order signed by King County Executive Dow Constantine violates a contract between the county and the federal government concerning Boeing Field, as well as the US Constitution’s supremacy clause, Judge Daniel A. Bress said for the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, affirming a lower court’s grant of summary judgment to the US.
The US District Court for the Western District of Washington in 2023 said the ...
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