A federal judge heard arguments Thursday on whether Florida's attorney general should be held in contempt or sanctioned for not following her order prohibiting the enforcement of a new state law making it a misdemeanor for people in the U.S. illegally to enter Florida.

U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams didn't make an immediate decision following an almost two-hour court hearing. Attorney General James Uthmeier didn't attend the court session in Miami.

The federal judge had specified in a ruling last month that her temporary restraining order against enforcing the Florida law applied to all of the state’s local law enforcement agencies. She later noted that there was a substantial likelihood that the Florida law would be found unconstitutional.

But Uthmeier sent out an April 23 lette

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