Attorney General James Uthmeier’s memo could set up a showdown with a federal judge.Tampa Bay TimesBy Ana Ceballos, Syra Ortiz Blanes and Jay WeaverApril 24, 2025Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier on Wednesday told state and local law enforcement agencies that he cannot “prevent” them from enforcing a new state immigration law and that if they continue to make arrests of immigrants entering Florida who are in the country illegally, he thinks it would be lawful — even though a federal judge specifically ruled otherwise.“It is my view that no lawful, legitimate order currently impedes your agencies from continuing to enforce Florida’s new illegal entry and reentry laws,” Uthmeier wrote in the memo, which his office shared with the Times/Herald.The memo, echoed in a brief filed by his office Wednesday in Miami federal court, sets up a showdown with U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams. Last Friday, Williams scolded lawyers for the state attorney general’s office after learning that Florida Highway Patrol troopers had arrested more than a dozen people — including a U.S. citizen — after she had ordered them to stop in an April 4 ruling.
What is with these Republicans, do they think that a judges order is optional?
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