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Yes, federal laws override state laws, but that would require federal agents on the streets to enforce them.
by kingnothing 6y ago
Yes, federal laws override state laws, but that would require federal agents on the streets to enforce them.
- sneak 6y agoRecently there’s been a bit of a contentious issue involving federal cops on the street in Oregon cities, disobeying Oregon law, and violating human rights. The various federal police forces have a way of using selective enforcement as a weapon. It’s really terrible. It’s why I’m not as happy as I’d like to be about these sorts of developments. When the FBI can arrest you and throw you in jail for decades at will simply for doing something “totally legal, maaan” it’s a really worrying state of affairs.
- WorldMaker 6y agoIt's not supposed to be that the federal level can enforce laws without permission/cooperation from the states, even and especially if/when federal laws overrule state laws. But a lot of that of that control states used to have over such enforcement went out the window with the creation of the FBI, and before that with the surprisingly early invention of US Marshals and subsequent marshal law precedents (especially the amount of over-reach and expansion that happened in the "Old West" and "frontier justice", even if most of that was with state's permissions). It's a real head scratcher, though, how the party supposedly for "state's rights" and "constitutional originalism" seems to be the party of frontier justice federal enforcement over state's rights.