An appeals court has blocked a California law passed in 2025 requiring federal immigration agents to wear a badge or some form of identification. The Trump administration filed a lawsuit in November challenging the law, arguing that it would threaten the safety of officers who are facing harassment, doxing, and violence and that it violated the constitution because the state is directly regulating the federal government. A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals comprised of Jacqueline H. Nguyen, Mark J. Bennett, and Daniel P. Collins issued an injunction pending appeal Wednesday. It had already granted a temporary administrative injunction to block the implementation of the law. At a hearing March 3, Justice Department lawyers argued that the California law sought to regulate the federal government, violating the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution. California lawyers argued that the law applied equally to all law enforcement officers without discriminating ag...
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