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"New Mexico essentially banned civil asset forfeiture in 2015, but Albuquerque argued the state law didn't apply to its own city codes and continued to seize ca
by t0mbstone 8y ago
"New Mexico essentially banned civil asset forfeiture in 2015, but Albuquerque argued the state law didn't apply to its own city codes and continued to seize cars."
How the fuck is a city able to just decide to ignore state laws? I don't understand...
The officials in charge at the city level and in the police department need to see some jail time for breaking the very laws they are sworn to uphold.
- toomuchtodo 8y agoTypically the concept of Home Rule is used. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_rule_in_the_United_States https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_rule_in_the_United_Stat...
- SlowRobotAhead 8y agoCities try this with gun laws all the time. Even if a state has premption specifically for gun laws. At any time a city or town somewhere is trying to get sued by enacting “their own” anti gun laws. I see it come up at least twice a year.