Associated Press: Trump administration sues Colorado and Denver for allegedly interfering in immigration enforcement

The Department of Justice sued Colorado and Denver on Friday for allegedly interfering with federal efforts to enforce immigration laws, the latest attempt by the Trump administration to crack down on what some call sanctuary cities and policies.

The lawsuit claims the state and its most populous city, Denver, have passed “sanctuary laws” violating the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution.

There is no strict definition for sanctuary policies or sanctuary cities, but the terms generally describe limited local cooperation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ICE enforces U.S. immigration laws nationwide but seeks state and local help, particularly for large-scale deportations, and requests that police and sheriffs alert ICE to people it wants to deport and hold them until federal officers take custody.

Read up on the Tenth Amendment, bozos. Local officials don’t have to do federal officials’ work.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/trump-administration-sues-colorado-and-denver-for-allegedly-interfering-in-immigration-enforcement/ar-AA1E5gA8

Associated Press: Colorado fights Trump administration bid to help imprisoned loyalist Tina Peters

Trumps politicized Dept. of Justice is trying to insert itself into a local Colorado case where it has absolutely no business intervening:

Colorado officials say President Donald Trump’s administration appears to be wielding its “political power” to give unprecedented help to a former county election clerk who was convicted of allowing Trump supporters to access election equipment after his 2020 defeat.

 Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser wants Magistrate Judge Scott T. Varholak to block the Justice Department from getting involved. Lawyers from Weiser’s office said the Justice Department has not given any good reason why it should intervene and has just repeated Peters’ arguments.

“Tina Peters was not prosecuted because of any political pressure; she was prosecuted because she broke the law. And just as they did not prosecute her for political reasons, her prosecutors will not accede to any political pressure to give her preferred treatment in sentencing or terms of confinement,” lawyers from Weiser’s office said in a filing.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/colorado-fights-trump-administration-bid-to-help-imprisoned-loyalist-tina-peters/ar-AA1DmfAe