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After more than a year on defense against a flurry of legal challenges to President Donald Trump's immigration policies, the Justice Department is going on offense, filing a suit against the State of California that alleges obstruction of federal immigration enforcement.

The suit, set for filing Tuesday night in federal court in Sacramento, targets three sanctuary-focused laws that the California Legislature passed last year as part of a backlash against Trump's vows to step up immigration enforcement.

The litigation is modeled on a suit the Obama administration filed in 2010 against a controversial state law in Arizona that sought to crack down on illegal immigrants, SB 1070. That case resulted in a Supreme Court ruling that found that some provisions of the Arizona law unconstitutionally intruded into Congress' right to set federal immigration policy.

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