Appeals court rules California cannot require ICE to show visible ID

 The Hill reported that the Ninth Circuit barred the enforcement of a California law requiring Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers to show visible identification.

The court remanded the case with instructions to enter a preliminary injunction on the enforcement of the law, holding that the U.S. government has shown that the state No Vigilantes Act violates the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution. The court ruled that the Supremacy Clause “prohibits States from directly regulating federal operations even when regulating state operations in the same manner.”

“In sum, if a state law directly regulates the governmental conduct of the United States without congressional authorization, it is void irrespective of whether the regulated activities are essential to federal functions or operations, and irrespective of the degree to which the state law interferes with such functions or operations.”