State AG scolds judge in SCOTUS reply over her order blocking immigration arrests

Source: Law & Crime

Jul 6th, 2025, 5:25 pm


Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier spent his Fourth of July pushing back against immigration advocates in a filing to the U.S. Supreme Court, urging the justices to reject pleas to uphold a federal judge's injunction blocking the state's new immigrant enforcement law — a move Uthmeier blasts as a "remarkable power grab."

"The district court extended its injunction to cover every Florida law enforcement officer even though they had not been sued," Uthmeier said Friday in reply to a response brief filed by the Florida Immigrant Coalition, the Farmworker Association of Florida and two individual plaintiffs who are suing the state over the immigration law. "Plaintiffs' response carries forward the same mistakes as the district court," Uthmeier blasted.

Last month, the Florida AG asked the U.S. Supreme Court to step in and allow him to continue enforcing the new state law — known as SB 4-C, which criminalized the entry and presence in Florida of immigrants who have entered the United States illegally — after a federal judge blocked it with a preliminary injunction.

U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams issued a 14-day stay blocking the law on April 4 after it was signed into effect by Gov. Ron DeSantis in February. The legislation and its enforcement has been a powder keg for controversy, recently resulting in Uthmeier being held in contempt of court.

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