To the editor: The U.S. Constitution can protect our state against President Trump’s threats to withhold federal funds from so-called sanctuary jurisdictions if we don’t comply with his immigration edicts. Finally, in the 1937 case Steward Machine case, the Court held that conditions on federal money “may not cross the point at which pressure turns into compulsion” against the states. The Court relied on this principle in the healthcare case to strike down forced Medicaid expansion in the states; California could be protected similarly. ..To the editor: California will get its just deserts for its arrogance. It seems California leaders believe they are blessed with governing abilities not found anywhere else.

Source: Los Angeles Times January 28, 2017 17:29 UTC