Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem had no right to withhold nearly $34 million in anti-terror grants for the MTA as a punishment for New York’s sanctuary policies. That is an obvious conclusion, but it took Manhattan Federal Judge Lewis Kaplan to put it into writing, ordering the illegal move reversed.

As the judge wrote yesterday, “Here, Congress did not authorize the DHS Secretary to fix immigration-related terms or conditions on the disbursement of Transit Security Grant Program funds. To the contrary, Congress prohibited DHS from imposing such terms by requiring the selection of grant recipients to be ‘based solely on risk.’ ” That’s worth repeating, “based solely on risk.”

And New York is the No. 1 target for terrorists. That means the most........

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