Motherfucker it’s on the doormat.
State and local law enforcement is not obliged to assist federal agents with their federal “enforcement” actions.
Time for NYC to take out the trash at 721-725 Fifth Avenue
“The government wants the decades-old laws declared invalid for violating the Supremacy Clause.”
Statements like this annoy the shit out of me. You are a company paying journalists to write this, yet you can’t list the name of any of those laws. Maybe when they were enacted. It’s like a teaser article that they want you to have to look up the shit because they didn’t care enough about good journalism
StAtEs RiGhTs
This is a city
Knowledge is chasing you, but you are faster.
The division is between state and federal; city or other lower-level political power is simply delegated state power.
No this is Patrick!
Guess where cities are
On the ground
Who owns the ground?
Well that a big question, involving philosophy, economics, politics, and the law. The answer can range from “It’s complicated”, to “nobody”.
But there is only one e entity with the “strongest claim”. And when I say “strongest”, I mean “most violent”. And that is the state.
That would be a philosophical point of view, being “Might Makes Right”.
Also, “The State” as you’re using it, is a term generically referring to any government. Not related to the individual states in the United States. In fact in the US specifically, the federal government “owns” the land, and gives it to each State. For modern context see how Nevada only controls a fraction of “their” land. In fact they’ve sued the federal government about it.
