That's what legal scholar Jonathan Turley calls attempts by local and state officials to impede the operations of the federal government.
Across the country, a new defense is being heard in state and federal courtrooms. From Democratic members of Congress to judges to city council members, officials claim that their official duties include obstructing the official functions of the federal government. It is a type of liberal license that excuses most any crime in the name of combating what Minn. Gov. Tim Walz called the “modern-day Gestapo” of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
The latest claimant of this license is Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-NJ), who was charged with assaulting, resisting, and impeding law enforcement officers during a protest at Delaney Hall ICE detention facility in Newark, New Jersey.
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It is the same claim being heard this week from Worcester City Councilor Etel Haxhiaj who was shown in a video shoving and obstructing ICE officers attempting to arrest a woman on immigration charges ... In Wisconsin, Judge Hannah Dugan has been charged with obstructing a federal arrest of an illegal immigrant who appeared in her courtroom ... Judge Duggan also claimed that she was carrying out her duties even though her hearing was over, the charges were not part of state matter, and the arrest was being carried out outside of her courtroom. She was declared “a hero” by Democratic politicians and pundits.
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If oversight means that members [of Congress] can force their way into any federal facilities, we would have 535 roaming inspectors general who could wander at will through the executive branch.
There's more at the link.
These progressive-left activists claim that they're somehow entitled to disobey and/or disregard the law of the land . . . but they're also the ones who, in their judicial pursuit of President Trump before his re-election, proclaimed solemnly that "No-one is above the law". No-one except them, it seems.
What with so many liberal district court judges flagrantly exceeding their authority, and a Supreme Court that appears strangely reluctant to smack their fingers and put them back in their place, we have a real judicial crisis brewing. It's not made any easier by activists who disregard the law at will.
I don't know how much longer this can continue before President Trump has to copy President Jackson's famous response to the Chief Justice of his time. Sadly, he may have little choice.
Peter
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In the battle of "Feelings" vs Logic and law it seems Proverbs 29:19 applies:
…18Where there is no vision, the people cast off restraint; but blessed is he who keeps the Law. 19A servant cannot be corrected by words alone; though he understands, he will not respond. 20Do you see a man who speaks in haste? There is more hope for a fool than for him.…
There has been NO Punishment for such bad amoral behavior for decades.
That the MEDIA and Democrats (but I repeat myself here) call them HEROS for defying the law screams this truth.
We are living in a Color Revolution direct from the CIA playbook. A currently cold civil war where the current weapons are lawfare and discrediting the soon to be overthrown government.
Any reasonable disagreement is welcome, my table is over there with a coffee pot. I have extra mugs.
Impeding an officer in the performance of his duties is a crime. Arrest them. Make sure you have body cam footage or other documentary evidence. Resistance is not resistance unless there is consequence.
I don't think they've thought it through. They're bringing it one step closer to confrontational violence, where a robust defense is not only warranted, but defensible in court. Do they really want to face prosecution, after they've finished healing?
If these state and local officials stopped to think (I know, they don't) the same argument can be used to foment and implement resistance to anything and everything they push. The basic argument is "we can resist anything we don't like, no matter what rules we agreed to." That philosophy can apply at ANY level of government.
They are essentially advocating for non-stop societal guerrilla warfare, all up and down the political hierarchy. And they are in the middle, with adversaries above AND below them.
Personally I'm all in favor of congress critters "forcing" their way into federal detention facilities, as long as the authorities don't let them out.--Nuke Road Warrior
The real interesting chapter in the story of how the united states fell apart comes after this behavior becomes normalized.
Spoiler, it won’t be a good ending.
TMF Bert
I'd love to see a squadron of DHS officers descend on someplace like Denver and start arresting the Major, Chief of Police, councilmembers, and any judges who all advocate or enforce Sanctuary City policies... No bail, treat the TRUE insurrectionists like the J6 prisons, the whole ball of wax. Start with Denver, follow up with Portland, then Chicago, then see how many Dems are willing to go to prison for their virtue signalling.
Jackson was a piker.
Trump should have those district-level judges arrested under federal law for aiding and abetting illegal immigration. Then send them to Gitmo for safe-keeping.
After 60 days, declare their seats on the federal bench vacant, and replace them wholesale, coast-to-coast.
This judicial activism will stop in about 0.2 seconds after that, and the judiciary still remaining will get back to enforcing the laws as written, rather than trying to run the executive branch and legislate from the bench, simultaneously usurping the other two branches of government.
Trump's been too chicken-squeeze to do this so far, but the day is approaching when it has to be done. It will be a splendid way to clean house in the DC federal court, just for openers.
Two more vacancies in the 9th Circus flips that entire district too, and suddenly 9 states return to the free republic overnight.
Assualts Fed agents, then claims it's her "job"... lock her ass up with her beloved illegals. She might even enjoy it...
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