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That last one is from Erwin Chemerinsky, the dean of the Berkeley law school, who argues that…”federal officers, including ICE agents, can be sued or prosecuted for violating state law unless those actions unduly interfere with the federal government’s operations.”
Chemerinsky goes on to argue that courts may decide that wearing masks is unreasonable, but that’s nonsense. If DHS tells ICE personnel to wear masks, that’s not their ‘unreasonable’ behavior, it’s the mandate from a federal agency, which can be fought as a matter of litigation, but not as a criminal one.
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Then having those states and cities actively forbid their law enforcement personnel from cooperating with federal law enforcement.
And then actively inciting and supporting harassment and riots against federal law enforcement.
Finally passing laws trying to limit the ability of federal law enforcement enforcing those specific laws in their ‘sanctuaries’.
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This is just a slower way to get to Fort Sumter in which states assert their immunity from and authority over federal personnel.
That’s how we got a civil war last time. And that’s how we may get there this time.
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