Justice Department sends warning letter to Denver, other sanctuary cities

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The Justice Department sent letters to 29 cities, counties and states, including Denver, on Wednesday afternoon warning them they might not be complying with an obscure law required to receive federal law enforcement grants.

The individualized letters point to specific policies in those jurisdictions DOJ says might be problematic, according to the letters.

The Justice Department is giving the jurisdictions until Dec. 8 to respond; it has not yet moved to reject funding applications or claw back grant money that was previously issued.

The move came the same day that a federal judge in ongoing litigation over sanctuary cities in Pennsylvania dealt the administration the latest blow to its efforts to punish sanctuary cities, barring the Justice Department from taking the grant funds away from Philadelphia over the compliance issue.

Federal judges have already twice limited the administration on its efforts to block funds.