Overview

• U.S. District Judge William Orrick extended his April order to cover Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston, Baltimore, Denver and about 30 other cities and counties.
• The ruling bars the administration from cutting or conditioning federal money and blocks immigration-related conditions on two specific grant programs.
• Orrick wrote that the executive orders threatened to withhold all funding unless local policies conformed to the administration’s preferences, which he deemed unconstitutional.
• The administration has appealed the earlier order and is pursuing parallel measures, including Justice Department lawsuits against cities and Department of Homeland Security designation efforts.
• Plaintiff jurisdictions said billions of dollars in federal grants were at risk before the court stepped in to preserve funding.