Seattle sues Trump administration over threat to ‘sanctuary’ cities

Seattle is suing the federal government for threatening to withhold federal money from sanctuary cities.

Let me get this right: Seattle is violating federal law, and they are suing the federal government over it? 

Seattle sues Trump administration over threat to ‘sanctuary’ cities

SEATTLE The city of Seattle sued U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration on Wednesday over its executive order seeking to withhold federal funds from “sanctuary cities,” arguing it amounted to unconstitutional federal coercion. Seattle Mayor Ed Murray told reporters the Constitution forbade the federal government from pressuring cities, “yet that is exactly what the president’s order does.