No surprise?
Don’t take federal dollars and don’t take surplus equipment and the Feds will have little day in local policing policies.
This is another example of the ill-conceived 17th Amendment (17A) at work. More about 17A shortly.
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponents Argument
The states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to tax and spend for local law enforcement purposes.
In fact, the Supreme Court has clarified that that Congress is prohibited from appropriating revenue in the name of state power issues, essentially any issue which Congress cannot justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers.
Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States. Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
Getting back to 17A as it relates to unconstitutional federal government spending on local law enforcement agencies, please consider the following.
The Founding States had not only established the federal Senate, but had given the power to elect senators uniquely to state lawmakers. This is because the Founders had expected senators to protect their states by killing bills which not only steal state powers, but also steal state revenues associated with those powers, the power to control local law enforcement departments in this case.
But now, as a consequence of 17A, low-information citizens go home after voting for their favorite federal senators and watch football, clueless to to the major constitutional problem that their corrupt senators are working in cahoots wtih the corrupt House to pass unconstitutional legislation, using unconstitutional taxes to win control of local law enforcement agencies as previously mentioned.
The 17th Amendment needs to disappear, and a bunch of corrupt senators along with it.
“He (odumbo)knows that is prohibited by the Constitution, but is attempting to circumvent that by stealth.”.......
Another one of his “fundamental changes”.
He needs to be removed permanently.
Citizens may regret it but those ninja cops will get their jollies when they can go wild on the public.
Exactly!! Please read “The Betrayal Papers” online which prove Obama is part of the Muslim Brotherhood. www.TheAmericanReport.org/category/home/betrayal-papers
www.TheAmericanReport.org/category/home/betrayal-papers
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Just read this and bookmarked it...it really makes me sick to my stomach...
Can we EVER be the America we were before this slim-ball took over our Government...I pray we can...
“Accepting those funds, from whatever source and for whatever purpose, may now subject local agencies to Federal “standards” that will severely restrict local autonomy in policy development and implementation.”
Not really. Accepting juice from the federal teat doesn’t necessarily mean you gotta do what the federal fascists say. Plenty of sheriffs are telling the fedzilla to stick a bone up their nose while refusing to obey federal diktats or cut the federal goons slack when they break state laws.
Sheriffs are sovereigns and can tell the federal goons to take a flying leap when they request assistance in some federal operation. And fatty federal fascists best obey state and county laws or face local SWAT teams.