HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031972 Thomas Pule van Ted Fol New noncome that eh ederal immi- Suit Against California Relies on a Court Case Won by Obama in 2012 SESSIONS. STA X OUT LAWS "The state may not pursue policies that undermine federal law,' a justice wrote. the commandeering issue was a substantial one. "To the extent the ful suit against But he added that "some of the In the Arizona case, conserva- tives insisted that respect for state sovereignty required letting states play a leading role in con- trolling immigration within their borders. But Mr. Sessions, a long- time conservative himself, disa- vowed that position in his speech on Wednesday. "Immigration law is the province of the federal gov- ernment," he said. Justice Antonin Scalia, the con- servative jurist who died in 2016, took a different view of the Ari- zona case. In an impassioned par- tial dissent, he wrote that "it is easy to lose sight of the states' tra- ditional role in regulating immi- gration - and to overlook their sovereign prerogative to do so." There is no doubt that the Cali- fornia lawsuit is at odds with some of the Trump administration's usual positions. "It's a fascinating suit on a number of levels," Profes- sor Vladeck said, "not the least of political parallels between the two administrations claim that the state laws they challenge impermissibly interfere with the axecutive branch's ability to en- force the immigration laws," she said. "But both lawsuits are also clearly designed to take on visible and politically powerful local offi- cials whose vision of immigration policy conflicts with the presi- dent's and his supporters'." In a news conference Wednesday, Xavier Becerra, the California attorney general, said he was ready for the fight. The state's laws, he said, were "fully NOAH BERGER/ AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE = GETTY IMAGES Protesting a speech delivered by Attorney General Jeff Sessions in Sacramento on Wednesday. safety and welfare of all our peo- ple." "California is in the business of public safety," he said. "We are not in the business of deportations." The Justice Department chal- lenged parts of three of Califor- nia's so-called sanctuary laws. One restricts employers from co- operating with immigration offi- cials. A second generally prohibits state officials from telling federal ones when undocumented immi- grants are to be released from state custody. A third requires state officials to insnect some fa- cilities that house people detained on behalf of the federal govern- ment. Jennifer Chacon, a law profes- sor at the University of California, Irvine, said the state laws had been carefully written to avoid di- rect conflicts with federal immi- gration laws. "I think it is clear that California deliberately tried to draft laws that involved core ex- ercises of state police power in a way that did not run afoul of fed- eral law," she said. Each state law presents differ- ent issues, and courts may give varying answers depending on how directly the state laws con- flict with federal ones. More gen- erally, though, courts will take ac- count of the Supreme Court's deci- sion in the Arizona case, which called for collaboration rather than conflict. "Consultation between federal and state officials is an important feature of the immigration sys- tem," Justice Kennedy wrote in the court's decision in the Arizona case. Gov. Jerry Brown, a Democrat, has said that consultation is fine but that federal officials should not use California's resources to pursue undocumented Californi- ans. The federal government, he added, may do so on its own. "They are free to use their own considerable resources to enforce federal immigration law in Cali- fornia," he said in October in sign- ing one of the challenged laws. The Supreme Court has said that the federal government may not commandeer state resources to achieve federal objectives. In his sneech on Wednesday. Mr. Ses. sions denied that anything like that was afoot. "Contrary to what you might hear from the lawless open bor- ders radicals," he said, "we are not asking California, Oakland or any- one else to enforce immigration "We are simply asking Califor- nia and other sanctuary jurisdic- tions to stop actively obstructing federal law enforcement," he add- But Professor Rodriguez said mints he unconstitutional ane immi ration man can- Professor Spiro said that Cali- fornia may have the upper hand in the suit's early stages. as the is- sues in it are novel, leaving judges with substantial discretion. The Trump administration has not fared well in federal courts in California in other cases concern- ing immigration, including ones challenging President Trump's ef- forts to restrict travel from pre- dominantly Muslim countries and to rescind a program protecting some 700,000 young unauthorized immigrants from deportation. But the ultimate fate of the suit will probably rest with the Su- preme Court. In 2012, with what may have been unwarranted opti- mism, Justice Kennedy said he hoped that conflicts over immi- gration policy would be worked out through reasoned discussion. "The national government has significant power to regulate im- migration," he wrote. "The sound exercise of national power over immigration depends on the na- tion's meeting its responsibility to base its laws on a political will in- formed by searching, thoughtful, rational civic discourse." Investigating Sexual Misconduct Accusations, Arizona State Suspends a Physicist By KENNETH CHANG Arizona State University has suspended Lawrence M. Krauss, a prominent theoretical physicist, while the university investigates accusations of sexual misconduct over a decade. "In an effort to avoid further disruption to the normal course of business as the university contin- ues to gather facts about the alle- gations, Krauss has been placed on paid leave and is prohibited from being on campus for the du- ration of the review," the univer- sity said in a statement released on Tuesday. Last month, BuzzFeed reported that several women have accused Dr. Krauss of inappropriate be- havior including groping women and making sexist jokes. The university said it would not release any additional details until Lawrence M. Krauss is direc- its investigation is complete. tor of Arizona State's Origins Dr. Krauss, a professor in the Project, a multidisciplinary re- university's School of Earth and search effort to tackle ques- Space Exploration, is director of tions about life, the universe Arizona State's Origins Project, a and complex social problems. multidisciplinary research effort to tackle questions about life, the universe and complex social prob- lems. He gained prominence for his book, "The Physics of Star Trek" in 1995. He later became one of the leaders of the so-called "skeptics" movement that es- pouses science over religion. He has also written essays and Op-Ed articles that were published in The Times. Michael Crow, president of Ari- zona State, told The State Press, an independent student news or- ganization, that the university had received no complaints of har- assment against Dr. Krauss. The Order home delivery today. university started the investiga- tion after being contacted by Buz- zFeed. Dr. Krauss moved to Arizona State from Case Western Reserve University in Ohio in 2008. CAROLYN KASTER/ASSOCIATED PRESS On Wednesday afternoon, Dr. Krauss posted a lengthy rebuttal to the BuzzFeed article. He said many of the incidents reported by BuzzFeed were based on unsub- stantiated rumors and others were distorted and misleading. "Has my language or demeanor sometimes made others feel un- comfortable?" Dr. Krauss wrote. "Clearly yes, and for that I sin- cerely apologize. Nevertheless, the BuzzFeed article effectively paints a false picture of me and my relationships with others through a mosaic constructed largely out of anonymous hearsay and a web of often vague innuendo." The university is not the only one to take action against Dr. Krauss. The American Physical Society and other organizations have withdrawn invitations to Dr. Krauss for upcoming talks. The Center for Inquiry, an organiza- tion that promotes secularism, suspended its association with Dr. Krauss on Monday. On Tuesday, Dr. Krauss re- signed from the board of the Bul- letin of the Atomic Scientists, which is best known for its Doomsday Clock that represents that danger of atomic war and other calamities to the planet. In his resignation letter, he said he was resigning from the board be- cause he did not want to distract from the organization's work. Additionally, conference scheduled for next month to mark the 10th anniversary of the Ori- gins Project has been canceled. "What we hope to do is reschedule it for another time," Dr. Krauss said in an interview on Wednes- day. DE, Irkey. an ex isted [Ank wre P.G divided t The proy in the Arno been in