“I know the States can shutdown banks, the fed, and many things including the postal service.”
But what does that accomplish? Nothing more than the states starving their own people rather than feds doing it for them.
The problem is that when the feds call Wells Fargo and tell them to freeze the account of Sheriff Joe Smith, Wells Fargo will do that, and like the truckers Joe Smith will then behave as told by the feds.
If the state of Texas wants to do the same to the asshole who canceled Joe Smith, how do we even find out who it is? Most likely it’s some guy living in Maryland that commutes to his Treasury job in DC. But who? And even if we know who, will Wells Fargo listen to Governor Abbott or even to Trump when he was president. NO DAMN WAY. Trump wanted to pull our troops out of Syria when he was president, and DOD simply said F-off and ignored him. Trump also wanted to declassify a bunch of documents, same thing, F-off, and they were never declassified.
Sorry - but we should have seen this coming, THEY HAVE THE CARDS. It’s no different here than it is for the Canadian Truckers...no different.
If States shut down their power centers like banks, communications (yes, States can target federal comm lines including military), federal offices, then they have nothing left.
States may not be able to target individual accounts, although they really can, but the States can neuter federal powers.