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Source of news: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/7/ice-launches-military-style-raids-in-los-angeles-what-we-know
This is Stephen Miller's (White House Deputy Chief) response to Karen Bass (Los Angeles Mayor).
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So much for "state's rights."
Fascists are never to be taken seriously when they say that they're very worried about protecting anything.
Another 5-10 years in power and they'll legalize conversion therapy and honor killings against gay and trans kids and call it "parental rights".
I will be shocked if it takes that long.
It’ll be anyone with it a red hat on being chased down by then. Trump will be a full vegetable if not dead by then, and the Vance/Miller/Heritage crowd will have found a way to take absolute power. Otherwise the whole thing will collapse and we might have a shot at reclaiming the country.
You have a shot now, you’re just not taking it.
What kinda shot?
Me against a police force? We haven’t even got left wing militias out there, let alone the size it would take for a coup.
Cool, well you just take a seat and relax. You’ve clearly done everything you can. Someone will be along to save you any day now, I’m sure.
Time for the Sartre quote:
They're all about protecting their own wealth and their own "supremacy."
Irony & Stephen being an arch-ghoul notwithstanding, federal law does supercede state law (Art 6 Sec 2). Like, Nebraska couldn't just legalize murder. They could stop enforcing that law, but it'd still be illegal and the federal gov't could take action.
Only to the extent that the Federal law is constitutional (ie within its powers) and valid
And to the extent that they are actually following the federal law, regardless of its constitutionality.
That's a fair point. But it would need to be argued in the courts.
Mmm, maybe, I'm pretty sure there's pretty solid case law precedent on this. It's been heavily litigated over the centuries.
The parameters around what is within the jurisdiction of the US Federal govt is pretty clear. Fundamentally Article I, Section 8 of US Constitution although there's a few other loose ends (implied powers).
"The enumerated powers listed in Article One include both exclusive federal powers, as well as concurrent powers that are shared with the states, and all of those powers are to be contrasted with reserved powers that only the states possess"
And "constitutionality" is defined by the Supreme Court...
Doh!
Yeah, the courts being captured is possibly the biggest problem facing the US right now. They're what makes all the bad stuff the current regime is doing possible.