The Trump administration filed a lawsuit on Monday challenging California’s new laws that ban federal officers from wearing masks and requiring them to have identification while operating in the state.
The suit takes issue with what the justice department described as California’s “unconstitutional attempt to regulate federal law enforcement officers through the so-called ‘No Secret Police Act’ and ‘No Vigilantes Act.’”
“Law enforcement officers risk their lives every day to keep Americans safe, and they do not deserve to be doxed or harassed simply for carrying out their duties,” the attorney general, Pam Bondi, said in a statement. “California’s anti-law enforcement policies discriminate against the federal government and are designed to create risk for our agents. These laws cannot stand.”
Federal officers conducting immigration raids this year have covered their faces and refused to show identification to people they detain.
California’s governor, Gavin Newsom, signed laws in September that his state the first to ban most law enforcement officers, including federal immigration agents, from covering their faces while conducting official business.
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