The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals — the most liberal appeals court in America, the court that has spent decades making conservatives want to throw their televisions out the window — just blocked California’s law that would have forced ICE agents to unmask and wear visible identification during enforcement operations. The Ninth Circuit. Sided with ICE. Over Gavin Newsom.

Somebody go outside and check if pigs are flying, because we are living in unprecedented times.

Here’s what happened. Last year, Greasy Gavin and his merry band of Sacramento Democrats cooked up a law designed to do one thing: make it harder and more dangerous for federal immigration agents to do their jobs. The law would have required ICE officers to wear visible identification while conducting enforcement operations in California. Sounds reasonable if you don’t think about it for more than three seconds.

Now think about it for four seconds. You’re an ICE agent conducting a raid on a house full of violent gang members. And California wants your full name and badge number displayed on your chest like a “Hello, My Name Is” sticker at a corporate mixer. What could possibly go wrong?

The Trump administration challenged the law in court, arguing exactly what any person with a functioning brain stem would argue — that it endangered officer safety and violated the Supremacy Clause. That’s the part of the Constitution that says states can’t regulate federal operations. It’s been settled law since Eisenhower was president, but apparently nobody in Sacramento owns a copy of the Constitution. (Shocking, we know.)

A three-judge panel looked at this law and unanimously said no. Not a split decision. Not a grudging 2-1 with a strongly worded dissent. Unanimous. Judge Mark Bennett issued an injunction blocking the whole thing, writing that “under the intergovernmental immunity component of the Supremacy Clause, states may not directly regulate the Federal Government’s operations.”

Translation: Sit down, Gavin.

The court specifically noted that this law wasn’t some general regulation that happens to apply to everyone. It was a law specifically designed to target federal immigration agents. Bennett pointed out that “the Act does not regulate conduct that any ordinary citizen could perform.” In other words, California wasn’t writing a law about wearing name tags at work. They were writing a law to sabotage ICE.

And we all know why. Newsom has been waging war on immigration enforcement since Trump took office. This was never about “transparency” or “accountability” or whatever focus-grouped garbage they slapped on the press release. This was about putting a target on the backs of federal agents so that the criminal illegal aliens they’re trying to arrest can identify them later. That’s it. That’s the whole play.

Remember, this is the same state where gubernatorial candidate Tom Steyer pledged to actually prosecute ICE agents for doing their jobs. Prosecute federal law enforcement officers for enforcing federal law. In America. These people are unbelievable.

But here’s the beautiful part — they lost at the Ninth Circuit. THE NINTH CIRCUIT. This is the court that conservatives have been complaining about for decades. This is the court that has blocked more Republican policies than any other in the country. And even THEY looked at California’s little stunt and said, “Yeah, no, that’s unconstitutional.”

When you’ve lost the Ninth Circuit on an immigration case, you haven’t just lost the argument. You’ve lost the plot entirely. Greasy Gavin pushed so far past the line that even the most sympathetic judges in the country couldn’t bail him out.

This is what happens when Democrats get so drunk on their own ideology that they forget basic constitutional law exists. States don’t get to regulate the federal government. Period. We settled this decades ago. But Newsom thought he was clever enough to sneak one past the judiciary, and a unanimous panel just sent him home empty-handed.

Meanwhile, ICE agents can keep doing their jobs in California without wearing name tags for the cartels. What a concept — letting law enforcement enforce the law without a state government trying to get them killed.

Gavin, buddy, maybe stick to hair gel. The legal strategy isn’t working out.