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To: higgmeister

If it’s murder, it’s not unconstitutional.

If it isn’t, then government, of any kind, can get lost.


91 posted on 03/17/2024 5:40:46 PM PDT by Fuzz
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To: Fuzz
If it’s murder, it’s not unconstitutional.

If it isn’t, then government, of any kind, can get lost.

Our federal government does not legislate murder unless it is in the federal domain.

In most cases, the crime of murder is prosecuted in state courts as a state crime. But there are seven scenarios when an unlawful killing violates federal law and thus is prosecuted as a federal crime. These include when:

1. the murder is of a federal judge or a federal law enforcement official (for example, an agent of the FBI, TSA, or ATF),
2. the killing is of an immediate family member of a federal law enforcement official,
3. the murder is of an elected or appointed federal official (for example, the President, a Supreme Court Justice, a member of Congress, or the murder of a federal judge),
4. the killing is committed during a bank robbery,
5. the killing takes place aboard a ship at sea (for example, on a vessel that is engaged in interstate commerce per the Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution),5 6. the murder was designed to influence a court case,5 and 7. the killing takes place on federal property (for example, on national parks or a Native American reservation).

For anything else each state legislates murder.   I trust the founders and each state must own the guilt if it condones murder of any kind.   Capital punishment is not murder, abortion is, and so is euthanasia.
119 posted on 03/17/2024 8:10:50 PM PDT by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! )
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