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The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Aug. 25 for Santa Clara County, affirming an injunction that bars the Trump administration from tying federal housing and transportation money — including Continuum of Care homelessness grants — to immigration-status verification and to assurances about “gender ideology” and “elective abortions.” Circuit Judge M. Margaret McKeown wrote that most of the conditions “far exceed the limited authority set out by Congress.” The case, Martin Luther King, Jr. County v. Scott Turner, was filed in May 2025 by eight cities and counties and now has more than 70 plaintiffs; Palo Alto City Council voted unanimously last September to support it and the city has joined two of the county’s suits against the administration. County Counsel Tony LoPresti said the county will keep pressing its other challenges to grant conditions.
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The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Aug. 25 for Santa Clara County, affirming an injunction that bars the Trump administration from tying federal housing and transportation money — including Continuum of Care homelessness grants — to immigration-status verification and to assurances about “gender ideology” and “elective abortions.” Circuit Judge M. Margaret McKeown wrote that most of the conditions “far exceed the limited authority set out by Congress.”
The case, Martin Luther King, Jr. County v. Scott Turner, was filed in May 2025 by eight cities and counties and now has more than 70 plaintiffs. Palo Alto City Council voted unanimously last September to support it and the city has joined two of the county’s suits against the administration. County Counsel Tony LoPresti said the county will keep pressing its other challenges to grant conditions.
