The New Yorker- The Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is so short and self-evident that you don’t need a law degree to understand it, or a judge to explain it to you: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
That language had real teeth during Donald Trump’s first Presidency, as states, cities, and localities invoked it to stop his abuse of immigration laws, of the purse strings that belong to Congress, and of their own authority over their affairs and general welfare.
This fight against government overreach has continued well into Trump’s second term. “Here we are again,” William Orrick, a senior federal-district judge in San Francisco, wrote in a recent opinion barring the Trump Administration from withholding funding that Congress had already allocated to state and local authorities for policing and other prerogatives. (He made a similar ruling during the first Trump Presidency.) The Administration’s actions, Orrick wrote, in April, “violate the Tenth Amendment because they impose coercive condition intended to commandeer local officials into enforcing federal immigration practices and law.”
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