Posted on 07/25/2025 6:08:25 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man
“federal laws do not force states to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement.”
SCOTUS should have something to say about this, at least, six of them. Something along the lines of, “The preemption doctrine, rooted in the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution, dictates that federal law supersedes conflicting state laws. This means that when federal and state laws clash, the federal law generally prevails. Preemption can be express, where Congress explicitly states that federal law will displace state law, or implied, where courts determine that compliance with both laws is impossible or that the state law frustrates the purpose of the federal law.”
How can these district court judges simply ignore clear, settled US constitutional law?
>Because they are democrats and it conflicts with their political agenda?
Well, duhh
Agree. What if a state decided to become a federal tax sanctuary?
She is pretty, though.
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Pretty rogue maybe.
And these trash judges were the first to allow Biden and Obama to IGNORE immigration law and stop states from enforcing immigration laws. Ignore and carry on. These Marxist Mexican hating judges have no authority in federal matters.
This is nuts. Biden put in some losers as judges.
Yep
So, federal “judges” don’t think that States have to comply with Federal laws - because they aren’t specifically charged with enforcing them.
Another waste of a black robe.
I would submit that they are not *stupid*. (or *sick*)
I think they know exactly what they're doing.
Which makes them EVIL, knowingly, deliberately, and willfully.
And as I understand it, that’s the basis for many if not all gun rights cases.
Correction. She is pretty...overreaching and disgusting.
All George Wallace needed was a few Judges on his side and the south would still be segregated.
It’s entirely new as they only started this crap in the early ‘00s.
Prior to that the idea was unheard of. Cooperation with Federal laws was considered de rigeur and part of Federal supremacy. Non-cooperation may appear passive but is in fact a form of resistance, which in itself can be construed as nullification.
And you really can’t have it both ways: Leftist states insisting that Federal immigration authority is supreme and that therefore, no state can make a law regarding immigration - such as Arizona’s SB1070 or California’s Prop 187 - and then in the next breath insisting that a state CAN make a law mandating non-cooperation with Federal immigration enforcment. There is no other way to interpret either a law or policy that does that: they are about immigration and nothing but.
The Left had that point made to them when states and municipalities started declaring themselves 2nd Amendment sanctuaries, to the outrage of the entire Bolshevik commentariat.
The ruling is correct. The feds cannot commandeer states to enforce federal law. States, counties and Indian reservations are sovereigns. It’s part of our federalist system.
See Mack v US when Clinton tried to force sheriffs to enforce Clinton’s anti-gun laws.
https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/us-9th-circuit/1387841.html
This issue has been dealt with in Mack v US. States and counties are sovereigns and cannot be commandeered to enforce federal law.
FReepers forget that Clinton tried to force sheriffs to enforce Clinton’s anti-gun laws. The sheriffs refused and won in the USSC.
So what’s Trump supposed to do now?
“So what’s Trump supposed to do now?”
About what?
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