Newsom v. United States (III)/opinion

The "The Law Enforcement Defunding Act" is a bill that unequivocally and unfairly attempts to solves the issue with police reform. The bill's aims are, on the surface level, a show of commitment to prevention of the tragedies that befell the African-American community in 2020 and prior. The actions that the bill takes to do so are, unfortunately, beyond the scope of the powers given to Congress.

If Congress sought to revoke it's police grants to the states, then such a bill would not be up for discussion in the Supreme Court. Congress has instead attempted to "defund" all police departments in the United States and such actions violate the 10th Amendment's reservations on powers not explicitly given to Congress, are preserved to the states.

Therefore, the attempt to defund all local, state, and federal police funding is unconstitutional, as Congress can make no law preventing the use of local or otherwise non-federal grant monies to the police departments managed by state and lower-tier governments.

Addendum: In the future, we ask that those who seek to recomend budgetary changes to state and local governments make it VERY CLEAR that is what is on the table, to avoid futher ambiguity and conflict of data.