(Adnkronos) – A federal judge appointed by US President Donald Trump has ruled against the administration, rejecting the appeal against Minnesota’s “sanctuary” rules, which, according to the administration itself, violate the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution, which states that federal law must be superior to state and local laws. The administration aimed to have the laws limiting the collaboration of local authorities with federal ones declared unconstitutional and asked the court to block them, as stated in the document. US District Judge Eric C. Tostrud dismissed the case in his ruling yesterday, writing that “the challenged provisions do not discriminate against the federal government by reserving less favorable treatment for it, at least not in a way that demonstrates a violation of intergovernmental immunity”.
Earlier this year, Minnesota was at the center of controversy related to the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, with over 3,000 federal immigration agents present in the state at times. Two US citizens, Alex Pretti and Renee Good, were killed in Minneapolis by federal immigration authorities in January, sparking widespread outrage. In recent weeks, ICE agents have also shot and killed several people, with two prominent cases occurring in Texas and Maine. In February, Tostrud found the Department of Homeland Security in civil contempt for violating a court order by transferring a detainee to a facility in Texas the previous month. Tostrud ordered the federal government to compensate the detainee for the return flight to Minnesota.
