Fla. AG to rebuff judge who ordered halt to state immigration enforcement: 'The court has overstepped' --A Miami federal judge threatened Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier with contempt, which could put him in prison | 2 May 2025 | Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier will rebut a judge's demand that his office order state law enforcement to halt enforcement of a state immigration law she ordered paused under suspicion of unconstitutionality. The law allows for misdemeanor charges against illegal immigrants who enter Florida and hope to avoid federal immigration officials. "The judge wants me to put my stamp of approval on an order prohibiting all state law enforcement from enforcing Florida's immigration laws when no law enforcement are party to the lawsuit," he said, as the ACLU's suit is being adjudicated before Obama-appointed Miami federal judge Kathleen Williams. On Wednesday, Uthmeier asked the court to let Florida Highway Patrol continue to enforce the law, after Williams was reportedly enraged that arrests continued to occur as the law awaits appeal in Atlanta's 11th Circuit.