Federal Court Blocks California's ID Rule for Immigration Agents

It's April 24.

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A federal appeals court in the 9th Circuit just shut down California's rule, forcing immigration

agents to show their IDs while on the job.

In a unanimous three-judge decision, they blocked enforcement of that part of a new state

law calling it a direct clash with federal authority.

This comes right after a judge already paused California's ban on masks for those same

agents back in February.

The Trump team sued over both rules, arguing states can't boss around federal officers

like that.

Democrats in Sacramento pushed the law, dubbed the Novigilante's Act, to push back against

agents showing a massed and unmarked during the big, deportation push.

Governor Gavin Newsom signed it to protect folks from what they saw as overreach.

The court leaned hard on the supremacy clause, saying no state can regulate how the feds

operate no matter the reason.

Judge Mark Bennett wrote, they couldn't let it stand, tipping the scales toward a full

injunction.

Meanwhile, California is cooking up more bills to target immigration enforcement, like

blocking agents from local cop jobs or easing lawsuits against them.

This legal wind keeps ice moving without state handcuffs, but the state's fight ain't

over yet.