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US judge tosses #Trump challenge to #NY immigration-related #law
A federal judge on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit the #DOJ filed challenging a New York law that the Trump admin said was impeding #immigration enforcement.
US District Judge Anne Nardacci in Albany rejected the DOJ's arguments that a NY law that restricts the ability of the Democratic-led state's #DMV to share vehicle & address info with federal immigration authorities violated the US #Constitution.
The lawsuit took aim at a #state #law known as the #DriversLicense Access & #Privacy Act, or the "Green Light Law," which the state enacted in 2019 & allowed migrants in the US illegally to obtain driver's licenses.
The #law directed the state's #DMV to accept various foreign documents as proof of identification & age for standard licenses & barred the state agency from inquiring about the #immigration status of applicants.
The #DOJ under #Trump alleged the #law was impeding its ability to address a "crisis of illegal immigration" & argued the law interfered with the enforcement of federal #immigration laws in #NewYork.
It argued the #federal immigration law preempted the #state law & that NY's law impermissibly regulates the federal government in violation of the US #Constitution. The DOJ asked the judge to block its enforcement.
@Nonilex "[state] law impermissibly regulates the federal government". Laughs in Commonwealth of Australia, where the federal government has fuck all power on the ground for matters outside the black-letter list in the Constitution. "Oh, you want a national school curriculum? Well us states will talk and we'll let you know what that will be."
But Nardacci… said the #Trump admin had failed to plausibly allege the #law ran afoul of the #Constitution.
She said the admin could point to no federal statute requiring #NewYork to provide #DMV information for standard license applicants to federal #immigration authorities.
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