Attorney General William Tong today announced Connecticut has won a court order prohibiting the Trump administration from illegally coercing states into performing federal immigration enforcement functions by threatening to withhold billions in funding for emergency preparedness and preventing and addressing terrorist attacks, mass shootings, wildfires, floods, cybersecurity threats and more.
“You cannot play politics with disaster relief. Not with lives and communities on the line. We sued, and this decision is a decisive victory for public safety and our sovereign states. This decision states unequivocally that Donald Trump’s baseless actions were once again arbitrary and capricious (the same legal smack down we just saw in the Revolution Wind win) and that he had zero authority to override the will of Congress. We’re going to keep fighting and we’re going to keep winning to stop Trump from defunding our states,” said Attorney General Tong.