A federal judge on Friday extended a preliminary injunction that blocks President Trump from withholding funds from more than 30 “sanctuary cities" over policies that restrict local police from participating in immigration enforcement.

U.S. District Judge William Orrick in San Francisco, an appointee of former President Obama, wrote in his decision that the Trump administration did little to object to his original order, instead appealing the decision and merely arguing the injunction was wrong. He also barred the administration from imposing conditions on grant programs that provide funding "for a variety of critical needs."

Orrick wrote that the executive orders issued by the president requiring federal agencies to remove funding from jurisdictions that don’t adhere to the administrati

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