Trump Sues New York Over Immigration Policies

“Yet he was released, flown to Maryland, where he committed this violent murder,” Bondi said.

Bondi did not cite specific legal violations by New York but claimed its policies prevent law enforcement from conducting background checks on potentially violent offenders in the country illegally.

Last week, the Justice Department filed a similar lawsuit against Illinois and Chicago, arguing that their sanctuary policies obstruct federal immigration enforcement.

Her news conference came amid a series of federal court rulings temporarily blocking President Donald Trump’s policies, including efforts to freeze spending, shrink the federal workforce, end birthright citizenship, and transfer transgender women to men’s prisons.

However, a judge in Boston approved Trump’s federal employee buyout plan.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt criticized the rulings, saying, “77 million Americans voted to elect this president. Each injunction is an abuse of the rule of law and an attempt to thwart the will of the people.”

Trump has said he will abide by the rulings but intends to explore legal options to challenge them. Meanwhile, Bondi rejected the idea of judicial impeachments, a suggestion made by Trump aide Elon Musk.

“We’re going to follow the law right now. We’re going to follow the process,” Bondi said. “These are federal judges with lifetime appointments. But they will be struck down ultimately by the Supreme Court of the United States if the appellate courts don’t follow the law as well.”

Bondi, a former Florida attorney general and longtime state prosecutor, previously represented Trump during his first impeachment.

Trump has placed several of his former defense attorneys in key Justice Department roles, including Todd Blanche and Emil Bove as deputy and principal associate deputy attorneys general, respectively, and John Sauer as solicitor general.

During her confirmation hearing, Bondi pledged that her work at the Justice Department would remain independent of political influence.