Appeals court blocks California ban for-profit prisons
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals again blocked on Monday a larger panel of California’s first-in-the-nation ban on for-profit private prisons and immigration detention facilities, finding that it is trumped by the federal government. By 2028 last year in California a three-judge appellate panel rejected the 2019 state law that would have phased out privately run immigration jails. A key piece of the nation’s detention system for immigrants the law would have undermined. To reconsider a ruling General Rob Bonta, California Attorney, had asked the larger appellate panel. The law signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom on immigration enforcement was one of many efforts to limit California’s cooperation with the federal government as then-President Donald Trump imposed hardline policies. But the Biden administration continued on constitutional grounds the U.S. government’s opposition to the law. Under the U.S. Constitution’s “supremacy clause” by the federal government the 11-member appella...