Thus stopping Trump & Co. from making states help the Federal Government enforce Federal Immigration policy in relation to states voting actions…..
In America…
State set the rules and run elections….
The Federal Government does NOT..…
Cities and counties sued, arguing that FEMA didn’t have the authority to condition counterterrorism grants on how they run their elections. On Monday, U.S. District Judge Amir H. Ali in Washington, D.C., agreed with them.
“The statute does not authorize FEMA to withhold counterterrorism grants until states and high-risk urban areas achieve policy objectives on their own dime,” wrote Ali, who was appointed by President Joe Biden.
FEMA’s suggestion on how elections should be run “may be a laudable goal,” Ali wrote, “but it is not a counterterrorism goal.”
The counterterrorism grants typically total $1 billion to $2 billion a year. The ruling bars FEMA from holding back part of that money by tying it to the election conditions.
“Today’s win is the result of cities and counties standing together against blatant federal overreach that jeopardized public safety,” said Abbie Kamin, the county attorney for Harris County, Texas, one of the local governments that filed the lawsuit…..
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