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Richard Luscombe in Miami

Florida attorney general held in contempt after enforcing blocked immigration law

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Florida’s attorney general, James Uthmeier, speaks during a meeting between Governor Ron DeSantis and the state cabinet at the Florida capitol in Tallahassee on 5 March. Photograph: Rebecca Blackwell/AP

A federal judge in Miami held Florida’s attorney general, James Uthmeier, in contempt of court for continuing to enforce an immigration law she blocked, and bragging about it in media interviews afterwards.

District court judge Kathleen Williams pointed to Uthmeier’s defiance in a scorching ruling on Tuesday afternoon that accused the Republican of twisting words in her April stay of a February law making it a state crime for undocumented aliens to enter Florida.

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