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Why is this a federal issue at all? Isn't criminal prosecution supposed to be a state issue.
by cdot2 5y ago
Why is this a federal issue at all? Isn't criminal prosecution supposed to be a state issue.
- michael1999 5y agoFederalism was one of many victims in the War on Drugs.
- dragonwriter 5y ago> Why is this a federal issue at all? Because of federal drug laws. > Isn't criminal prosecution supposed to be a state issue. No; the reason the Bill of Rights has procedural controls on federal criminal prosecutions (which were later applied to state prosecutions by way of the 14th Amendment and incorporation doctrine) is because criminal prosecution was always one of the tools designed to be used by the federal government in executing authority within its assigned domains of responsibility, which always included (among others) regulating trade among the states and between the US and foreign nations.