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  1. March 08, 2022

    Ill. Judge Tweaks Order To Satisfy DOJ's Funding Appeal

    An Illinois federal judge closed the book on Chicago's lawsuit challenging certain Trump-era conditions for recipients of a federal public safety grant on Tuesday when he put the final touches on his judgment blocking conditions for receiving the grant to resolve the case's outlying issues.

  2. August 01, 2018

    DOJ Appeals New Injunction In Chicago Sanctuary City Case

    The Trump administration will appeal the entry of a permanent nationwide injunction against new conditions it put on a public safety grant that so-called sanctuary cities have criticized as an attempt to force them to comply with federal immigration policy, according to a notice filed Wednesday.

  3. July 27, 2018

    Immigration Info Law Unconstitutional In Sanctuary City Row

    In a ruling Friday in favor of the city of Chicago in its suit against the Trump administration's attempts to add new, immigration-focused conditions on a federal grant, an Illinois judge said a federal law covering local governments' sharing of information with federal immigration authorities is unconstitutional.

  4. May 01, 2018

    7th Circ. Won't Stay Injunction In Sanctuary City Grant Row

    The Seventh Circuit will not put a temporary hold on a national injunction barring the U.S. Department of Justice from putting immigration-related conditions on a grant supporting public safety, a panel said Tuesday.

  5. April 27, 2018

    AG Sessions Wants Full 7th Circ. To Hear Sanctuary City Case

    The Trump administration on Friday urged the full Seventh Circuit to reconsider its ruling affirming a lower court's injunction against the U.S. Department of Justice preventing it from withholding federal grant money from so-called sanctuary cities in an effort to force them to comply with hard-line immigration policies.

  6. February 23, 2018

    NY, Others Back Chicago In Sanctuary City Battle With Feds

    New York, California, 13 other states and the District of Columbia urged an Illinois federal court Thursday to deny the federal government's bid to toss Chicago's lawsuit challenging the Trump administration's efforts to withhold federal public safety grant funds from so-called sanctuary cities, saying the move is unlawful.

  7. February 01, 2018

    Chicago Pursues Halt On Immigration-Related Grant Terms

    The city of Chicago on Wednesday asked an Illinois federal judge to give it a quick win and issue a nationwide, permanent injunction in its challenge to the federal government's immigration-related conditions on federal public safety grants, while attorneys general from more than a dozen states filed in support of the city.

  8. January 08, 2018

    Dems Back Suit Over Immigration-Related Funding Cuts

    Dozens of Democratic lawmakers have rallied behind Chicago's challenge to the Trump administration's attempt to impose new conditions on a federal public safety grant, saying that they are meant to coerce localities into adopting the president's immigration policies.

  9. January 05, 2018

    14 State AGs Support Challenge To Sanctuary City Grant Cuts

    Attorneys general from 14 states on Thursday threw their support behind Chicago's challenge to the Trump administration's attempt to impose new conditions on a federal public safety grant meant to further the president's immigration goals, saying that the conditions interfere with their own law enforcement policies.

  10. January 03, 2018

    Chicago Has No Grounds To Sue Over Grant Rules, DOJ Says

    The Trump administration on Wednesday asked an Illinois federal judge to toss Chicago's lawsuit challenging its attempt to impose new conditions on a federal public safety grant meant to further the president's immigration goals, saying the city is largely trying to get ahead of the administrative process that would actually give it something to challenge.

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