Federal judge blocks California law forcing ICE agents to remove masks during operations

A Los Angeles‑based national justice connected Monday blocked California from enforcing its instrumentality that would necessitate ICE agents to region masks during migration enforcement operations.

Judge Christina Snyder, appointed during the Clinton administration, argued that the "No Secret Police Act" and "No Vigilantes Act" discriminated against the national authorities by violating the Supremacy Clause.

Observers movie ICE agents arsenic they clasp a perimeter aft 1 of their vehicles got a level tyre connected Penn Avenue connected Feb. 5, 2026, successful Minneapolis, Minn.  (Stephen Maturen/Getty Images)

Under the U.S. Constitution’s Supremacy Clause, national instrumentality takes precedence implicit immoderate conflicting authorities oregon section law, rendering the lower-level instrumentality unenforceable.

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