By Blake Brittain<\/p>\n
Feb 9 (Reuters) – A federal judge in Los Angeles on Monday preliminarily struck down a California state law that \u200bbans federal officers from wearing masks while on duty.<\/p>\n
U.S. District Judge Christina \u200cSnyder said the U.S. government was likely to prove that the law is unconstitutional and \u200cgranted its request for an order against its enforcement.<\/p>\n
In the same ruling, Snyder upheld another California law that requires federal officers to display identification when performing their duties.<\/p>\n
California Governor Gavin Newsom said in a statement that Snyder’s decision on \u2060the identification law was “a \u200cclear win for the rule of law,” and that “no badge and no name mean no accountability.”<\/p>\n
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi \u200dcalled the decision on the mask law “ANOTHER key court victory” in a statement on X.<\/p>\n
“These federal agents are harassed, doxxed, obstructed, and attacked on a regular basis \u200bjust for doing their jobs,” Bondi said. “We have no tolerance for it.”<\/p>\n
Newsom \u200csigned the provisions in September amid Republican President Donald Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops to Los Angeles during protests over immigration enforcement operations. The U.S. Department of Justice sued to strike down the laws in November and said it would not comply.<\/p>\n
The department said in the lawsuit that federal officers “face a \u2060real threat of criminal liability from state officials \u200bwho have made clear their intent to \u200btarget federal officers and disrupt federal law enforcement activities, including federal immigration enforcement.”<\/p>\n
Snyder, an appointee of Democratic U.S. President Bill Clinton, \u200dagreed with the \u2060Trump administration that California’s masking law violated the U.S. Constitution’s Supremacy Clause, which prevents states from interfering with federal functions. The judge said \u2060the law improperly targets federal officers by treating them differently than state law enforcement \u200cofficers, who were excluded from the mask ban.<\/p>\n
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