My question: does ICE outrank local law enforcement? Couldn't the Minneapolis PD arrest the ICE assassin? Or the county police? Or the state police? The US president isn't supposed to have any jurisdiction over state law enforcement. Or could it be that legitimate law enforcement are actually on ICE's side?
All good questions, Sanford, and I don't have the answers. But they way things are going, with increasingly scant regard paid to the rule of law, and supreme court justices tending to side with Trump, I'm not sure it matters.
If, as alleged, new recruits to ICE include 6th January insurrectionists pardoned by Trump, then they are essentially political appointees who have likely been told not to be constrained by legal considerations, which is why I support the brownshirts comparison. Trump seems able to ignore all constitutional checks and balances and nobody can stop him.
Legitimate law enforcement may well be on the side of ICE regardless of whether what it's agents are doing is legal. Wearing the uniform doesn't compel them to enforce the law, and why should they if the commander-in-chief doesn't feel constrained it?
Yes, it turns out that ICE agent was indeed a former policeman or some kind of law enforcement. I suspected as much. So who polices the police? To paraphrase a famous fictitious authoritarian, Judge Dredd, when a judge breaks the law then there is no law.
My question: does ICE outrank local law enforcement? Couldn't the Minneapolis PD arrest the ICE assassin? Or the county police? Or the state police? The US president isn't supposed to have any jurisdiction over state law enforcement. Or could it be that legitimate law enforcement are actually on ICE's side?
All good questions, Sanford, and I don't have the answers. But they way things are going, with increasingly scant regard paid to the rule of law, and supreme court justices tending to side with Trump, I'm not sure it matters.
If, as alleged, new recruits to ICE include 6th January insurrectionists pardoned by Trump, then they are essentially political appointees who have likely been told not to be constrained by legal considerations, which is why I support the brownshirts comparison. Trump seems able to ignore all constitutional checks and balances and nobody can stop him.
Legitimate law enforcement may well be on the side of ICE regardless of whether what it's agents are doing is legal. Wearing the uniform doesn't compel them to enforce the law, and why should they if the commander-in-chief doesn't feel constrained it?
Yes, it turns out that ICE agent was indeed a former policeman or some kind of law enforcement. I suspected as much. So who polices the police? To paraphrase a famous fictitious authoritarian, Judge Dredd, when a judge breaks the law then there is no law.