Doesn’t sound like it to me.
States are NOT subservient to the Federal Government.
You violate a state law that is also a federal law, you have 2 completely different governments charging you independently
Nothing complicated about this at all, nor is it a violation of the constitution.
There is a reason the only people who fell for this claptrap are Gorsuch, Kagan and Sotomayor.
The problem with your reasoning is the 10th Amendment. If a state is allowed to prosecute a specific crime, then the Feds shouldn't be involved in any manner.
Under the Constitution the Federal Government is subservient to the states. The Federal government is a creation of the states. And no, you don’t have two separate governments charging you. You have THE government charging you. There may be two venues, but there is only one government.
- World Court prosecution.
- Federal US Court prosecution.
- State Court prosecution.
- County Court prosecution.
- City Court prosecution.
- Precinct Court prosecution.
I mean hell, we GOTTA be able to nail someone with six seperate prosecutions!!!!
It is good to see the Supreme Court recognize that states are sovereign and have never given up their sovereignty, except for those few, limited, enumerated grants of authority to the federal government mentioned in the Constitution.
The framers of the Constitution, however, specifically wanted to protect individuals from being retried, and retried, and retried for the “same offense” because of their experience with English authorities.
Now those protections - like other protections in the Bill of Rights - are being swept away by wise guys with enough language skills to run circles around five year olds with persuasive reasoning that a man is a woman.