Three liberal cities are suing the Trump administration over their recent designation as “jurisdictions that permit anarchy.”
The enclaves bringing legal action are New York City, Seattle, and Portland, Oregon.
Fox News’ Evie Fordham has more:
“It’s morally wrong, it’s legally unacceptable, it’s unconstitutional and we’re going to fight it,” New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, a Democrat, said at a press conference on Thursday. “I said weeks ago if the Trump administration persisted in trying to illegally take away funding from New York City we would take them to court, and we will beat them in court.”
“We did see them taking more and more moves that might have had an impact on funding, and that was the appropriate trigger for legal action,” de Blasio added.
New York City’s chief lawyer, Jim Johnson, who also spoke at the press conference, said that the administration has “actually taken this anarchist designation and started to include it in applications for federal grants.”
In September, the Department of Justice identified New York City, Portland and Seattle as “local governments that are permitting anarchy, violence, and destruction in American cities” after rioting in some areas of the country.
De Blasio’s office says New York City alone could lose up to $12 billion in funding.
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These cities allow the rioters to burn down their buildings and want to de fund the police. They want the taxpayers to pay for that F them ,not a dime
They are no longer being ruled by constitutional law. If they spurn the Constitution then taxpayers should not be forced to pay for their illegal actions
correct F them not a penny zero nada zilch
You watch, if they cannot get it from Trump and the govt, they will sue him personally. SO as others have said WHY SHOULD ALL TAX PAYERS HAVE TO PAY FOR ANY DESTRUCTION those states allowed???????????????? Round up the so called good rioters and MAKE THEM CLEAN UP YOURS AND THEIR MESS!
That right if they allow for these people to do it then they should only blame themselves for letting this happen democrats wants everything their way and want the American taxs payers to dish out more money to them. Sorry but No federal tax ballouts
how can they deny it . theie cities are destroyed and some are demanding last years taxes from people whose livelyhood they allowed destroyed
Each and ever person that has standing should sue each and every state. If they allowed this to happen then they are just as much a part of it as the lotters and rioters themselves.
NY cities mayor is a socialist and an anti-Trump and should be in jail. de Blasio is a fool and a moron and left-wing jerk.
one trillion percent correct
When you allow and participate banners of a terrorist organization like BLM (the Marxist committed organization) and Antifa sworn to destroy our Democratic form to paint your roads, when yo remove Covid restrictions to their massive protests, when you call own your police when confronted by riots, violence, and burning don whole neighborhoods, you are are certainly permitting anarchy. Our Constitution says “….the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances…” No approval of their anarchistic and seditious activities.
Those Mayors are TOO IGNORANT for words. Trump no any Americans outside of those in their cities caused a single penny of the Damages to these cities. Why should all Americans pay for these Mayer’s and City Councils WILLFUL IGNORANCE???? Instead of taking the TERRORISTS and COWARDLY THUGS destroying their Cities as they should have they gave them a free pass to do as they pleased. That means these Mayors and City Council members should be paying and not American tax payers who do not live in these cities or States. The law abiding citizens of those cities should be suing the Democraps in their cities they are the IGNORANT FOOLS that allowed this to happen. I do apologize to IGNORANT FOOLS for lumping them in with Democraps who are nowhere near as intelligent as IGNORANT FOOLS are.
Ahhh, aren’t they all cities that DO allow and encourage anarchists to rule and riot in their cities? And isn’t an avowed antifa member running for governor of Seattle? Good luck with the law suit! They’ll probably get some nice corrupt judges to help them win…
😂😂😂😂 this will go no where! Y’all deserve it!
Don’t these guys realize that they are sueing us the American people
That’s the core of dems’ socialist mentality: OUR income is their property.
When someone don’t know his ass from a hole in the ground , what do you expect. This clown is so infatuated with himself he is liable to do anything to attract attention. With time he will blow himself out of a job. If not both he and New York City will become a wasteland.
I think this whole law suit thing is completely insane. To those involved you are not going to just have the possibility loss of the Federal Funds but you will loose the tax revenue. People are voting with their wallets and their feet. NY 6 Billion in the hole already and losing taxpayers on a daily basis. Let’s se you spend your way out of that one. More taxes is not going to help because people will continue to vote with their feet
It’s neither immoral, illegal, or unconstitutional. What’s a mystery is why New Yorkers haven’t already recalled this buffoon.
These city are Democrats ran city. Their the one that want to defund the police. They did nothing to control the anarchy of the BLM and Antifa. When a city like New York lets out criminal , and people that are arrested are out in 30 minutes do to the change in their laws and the DA. Money was raised by the Democrats party to let out BLM
and Antifa. Let the Democrats and Hollywood elite pay for these cities to be fix. If they can pay for terrorist to get out of jail, then they can fix these Democrats run city’s. I feel if you want money, go to the source of the money. Soros or Obama.
Read where Kamala paid for some even convicted of murder.
I wouldn’t give them a dime. They allow those riots and Diblasio even helped BLM deface the street painting on it. They allow that, allow the mistreatments and cruel treatment of police. These Democrat leaders are a disgrace to the people who live in their district. NO FUNDING !!!!
they know they don’t have a leg to stand on because they refuse the type of help that they needed and brassily said we are better than the US government
How is it that NOT ONE of these cities are controlling the BLM and ANTIFA rioters? Is it because they are being run by socialists who are kissing cousins to the radicals. Not one of their Mayors has mentioned the fact that BLM was initiated by three admitted Marxist women.
De Blasio is a damned commie, any thing that can be done to make his life HELL is fine with me. The same feelings for the mayor’s of Seattle and Portland, who the hell do they think they are to sit on their butts while people destroy their towns and apparently murder people while they are “protesting”. The military using non rubber bullets would stop this BS almost instantly.
And demand we all wear masks? How manty did you see? Social distancing? Whats that? Or MAKE ME! And years ago is was all over the news about the commie that was elected in NY!
apply to ALL Blue states or those with riots.
Yes
those 3 cities are in need of new administration, they have allowed the criminals to run their cities
Maybe these anarchists are doing America a back-handed favor. This will save America a huge bundle, giving the Federal debt real relief. Go Trump!!!
The Idiots Are At It Again When Are The Azzes Going To Wake Up And Face Reality
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