All Things Trump: The Return Of The King

[Tero]

ICE shoot 5 bullets to smash a windshield. Just a routine traffic stop.
https://www.threads.com/@therealgxldsoc ... iHk&slof=1

[Tero]

Ping in Somalia, ping in Minnesota. It's all the same to him.

[JimC]

Where are the burly men in white coats when you need them?

[pErvinalia]

When's the Greenland invasion going to begin? I'm getting bored!

[Svartalf]

Where are the burly men in white coats when you need them?

who needs those? what's really needed is a man with a gun, or a couple LEOs and a plane to take that to guantanamo.

[pErvinalia]

Maybe Putin will throw him out a window when he's finished with him.

[Svartalf]

Maybe Putin will throw him out a window when he's finished with him.

unlikely, but putting some polonium or thallium or novychok in his coke would be a great idea.

[Tero]

Protestor blinded by something shot at him
https://www.threads.com/@crbarbermd/pos ... wD_&slof=1

[Tero]

I'm pretty worn from all this. Small effort for today. I have a dental appointment today, but these boring everyday things seem to lose meaning when we ate bombarded with thugs in Minnesota video clips.
https://www.threads.com/@tero55gervais/ ... yf7&slof=1

[Tero]

Governors cannot arrest federal agents?
Google AI

Governors cannot broadly stop U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activities because immigration enforcement is a federal responsibility, and federal law generally supersedes state law under the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution. ICE agents are federal law enforcement officers authorized by Congress to enforce the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA).

Here is a breakdown of the legal framework and limitations:
Federal Authority: The U.S. Supreme Court has long held that the power to regulate immigration is exclusively a federal power. States cannot pass laws that directly conflict with or obstruct federal immigration enforcement efforts.

Federal Immunity: Federal agents are generally protected from state prosecution for actions that are "necessary and proper" for fulfilling their official duties, a principle established in an 1890 Supreme Court case.

Limits on State Action: A governor who actively blocked federal arrests or destroyed federal documents could face criminal charges for obstruction of justice.

Passing Laws: States can pass laws that make it harder for federal agents to operate by limiting the type of information shared with ICE (as long as it doesn't violate federal statutes requiring information sharing).

Legal Challenges: Governors and state attorneys general can file lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of specific ICE practices or federal executive orders, as has been done in states like Minnesota, California, and Illinois.

Prosecuting Unlawful Actions: If an ICE agent acts beyond the scope of their lawful federal duties or violates state criminal law (e.g., using excessive force not justified by policy or law), they are not immune from state prosecution.

In essence, the separation of powers means governors lack the direct legal authority to stop an entire federal agency's operations, even if they disagree with the agency's tactics or perceive them as "illegal". Challenges to the legality of specific ICE actions must generally be resolved through the federal court system.

[Tero]

Urban strife
President Trump does not seem interested in de-escalating anything in Minneapolis. This week, he said that one justification for the shooting of Renee Good might have been that she had been “disrespectful” to officers. Being disrespectful is a form of speech, though — one protected by the Constitution.

Now the government is sending 1,000 more immigration officers to Minnesota on top of the 2,000 already there. The administration also said it would end deportation protections for more than 2,000 migrants from Somalia. The state is home to the largest diaspora of Somalis in the world.

Minnesota filed a lawsuit on Monday alongside the cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, asking a judge to block the federal government from “implementing the unprecedented surge in Minnesota.”

“FEAR NOT, GREAT PEOPLE OF MINNESOTA,” Trump wrote on social media yesterday, “THE DAY OF RECKONING & RETRIBUTION IS COMING!”

On the one hand are people driving to work, walking out of a store, trying to get home. On the other are federal agents sent to a place they are unwelcome and told to round up people many locals want to protect. Some activists are throwing snowballs at officers, blowing whistles, chanting at them, parking in the way of their vehicles. Residents have honked car horns through the night next to a hotel where agents are staying and followed a commander into the bathroom to shout at him.

Agents respond with pepper spray, tear gas or worse.

Everyone is just mad — at the injustices they perceive, at the people performing them, at the awful facts on the ground. That’s as true of the masked federal agents as it is of the citizens and noncitizens they face. The steam pipe valve is screwed down tight in Minneapolis. The pressure only goes up. Good is dead, and more may follow.

Brian O’Hara, Minneapolis’s police chief, has been warning about this for weeks. More than five years ago, the killing of George Floyd by members of his department tore Minneapolis apart. O’Hara came in afterward to rebuild the force and re-establish trust with the city’s residents.

On Monday, Michael Barbaro interviewed him for “The Daily” and asked what his first thought had been when he heard about the Good shooting. O’Hara was measured throughout the interview, and you can hear the pause as he considers the question. “I just thought, Fuck, this is it,” O’Hara said. “You know? This is potentially 2020 all over again.”

“George Floyd all over again?” Michael asked.

“The destruction of the city,” the chief responded.

Sam Sifton NYT