August 24, 2026
The Trump administration has asked separate federal circuit courts to review lower court decisions rejecting its challenges to various state and local sanctuary immigration policies, arguing to the Tenth Circuit that such policies from Colorado and Denver affirmatively obstruct federal immigration enforcement.
June 25, 2026
A New Jersey federal judge has tossed a Trump administration suit challenging the sanctuary policies in four Garden State cities, ruling that most of the government's grievances against them actually stemmed from a statewide directive it unsuccessfully challenged previously.
September 03, 2025
Four Garden State cities blasted a U.S. Department of Justice lawsuit accusing them of obstructing federal immigration enforcement, telling a New Jersey federal judge that the case cannot overcome precedent that upheld the state policy at issue.
May 27, 2025
Four New Jersey cities — Newark, Jersey City, Paterson and Hoboken — are obstructing federal immigration enforcement with their sanctuary policies in violation of the supremacy clause of the U.S. Constitution, the federal government claims in a lawsuit filed in the Garden State.