Trump looks to target ‘sanctuary cities’ as Philadelphia gets ready for potential budget attacks

As the Trump administration targets sanctuary cities like Philadelphia, Prof. Jennifer Lee looks to the 10th Amendment, which makes clear that”the federal government can’t coerce states and localities to do the federal government’s job.” While the use of funding as leverage is more complicated, Prof. Lee says that “there’s some good law out there that basically says that they can’t just willy-nilly cut all this funding from states and localities because they don’t like what they’re doing and try to make them do something else.”