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The Justice Department announced the ban last year, but Chicago sued, saying that even though it has banned enforcement of immigration laws, it should still get federal funding. A federal District Court judge ruled in favor of the city and blocked the Justice Department from applying the sanctuary criterion to its grant policy. Now, a federal appeals court has narrowed the Chicago decision, saying the local District Court’s ban on federal funding using sanctuary policies could not be enforced nationwide.

Comment: Quite a few articles like this coming out from politicians opposed to public funding.

Comment: An utterly irrational argument by Greg Hinz. He says the Janus decision wasn’t about free speech but was all about politics, about giving one political party and its ideology and its beliefs a leg up on the other. But that’s exactly the point. It was about compelling political speech.

Comment: Sure, it’s a political stunt, but it’s an important one. The sponsor is House minority leader Jim Durkin who hasn’t exactly been a champion of bold reforms. Maybe he’s waking up.