May 01, 2018
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.
April 27, 2018
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.
April 24, 2018
The Seventh Circuit on Tuesday denied the U.S. Department of Justice's request to stay a nationwide injunction barring it from applying new, immigration-focused conditions on so-called sanctuary cities that apply for a federal public safety grant.
April 19, 2018
The Seventh Circuit on Thursday upheld a nationwide preliminary injunction blocking the Trump administration from using a federal public safety grant to force so-called sanctuary cities to comply with its immigration policies, criticizing the effort as an infringement on the separation of powers.
January 19, 2018
A Seventh Circuit judge hearing arguments Friday over new federal grant rules targeting sanctuary cities seemed to think the U.S. Department of Justice overstepped, calling the government's interpretation of its powers a "slippery slope."