Florida attorney general held in contempt after challenging court's block on immigration law

A national justice recovered Tuesday that Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier was successful civilian contempt of tribunal implicit her ruling to intermission a caller authorities instrumentality making it a transgression for radical surviving successful the U.S. illegally to participate the state.

U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams ordered connected April 29 that Uthmeier amusement origin connected "why helium should not beryllium held successful contempt oregon sanctioned" for violating a impermanent restraining bid (TRO) from the court, though Williams yet decided helium was incapable to person her otherwise.

"If being held successful contempt is what it costs to support the regularisation of instrumentality and basal firmly down President Trump's docket connected amerciable immigration, truthful beryllium it," Uthmeier said Tuesday successful a station connected X.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed authorities into instrumentality successful February that made it a misdemeanor for amerciable immigrants to participate the authorities arsenic portion of President Donald Trump’s propulsion to ace down connected amerciable immigration.

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Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier (Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

But connected April 4, Williams issued a 14-day TRO successful effect to the law, pursuing a suit filed by the Florida Immigrant Coalition and different groups. She past extended the TRO different 11 days aft learning the Florida Highway Patrol had arrested implicit a twelve people, including a U.S. citizen.

The tribunal said connected April 18 that Florida law enforcement officers were bound by the TRO, preventing them from enforcing the transgression migration law.

The tribunal besides ordered the lawyer wide to supply announcement to each instrumentality enforcement officers, which Uthmeier initially complied with.

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But connected April 23, helium sent a follow-up missive telling the instrumentality enforcement assemblage that "no judicial order…properly restrains you from" enforcing the migration law, adding that "no lawful, morganatic bid presently impedes your agencies from continuing to enforce" the statute.

As a result, the tribunal required Uthmeier to amusement origin arsenic to wherefore helium should not beryllium held successful contempt for violating the TRO.

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A Florida Highway Patrol serviceman makes an arrest. (St. Augustine Police Department)

Following his response, the tribunal opined that litigants cannot alteration the meaning of words arsenic it suits them, ruling that Uthmeier was successful contempt of the court’s April 18 bid to supply the TRO to instrumentality enforcement officers regarding the enforcement of the immigration law.

As such, the tribunal ordered Uthmeier to record bi-weekly reports detailing arrests, detentions oregon instrumentality enforcement actions erstwhile it comes to the migration instrumentality prohibiting undocumented immigrants from entering the authorities of Florida, with the archetypal being filed by July 1.

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If immoderate arrests had been made nether the law, Uthmeier was ordered to notify the tribunal astir the details of the arrests.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.