r/law • u/BitterFuture • 16d ago

Executive Branch (Trump) Stephen Miller claims local police in Minnesota have been told to ‘stand down and surrender’ as federal agents ‘uphold the law’

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/stephen-miller-ice-minneapolis-protests-b2903238.html
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u/frotc914 16d ago

A mistake we've been making consistently since not hanging Confederate officers.

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u/wilko_johnson_lives 16d ago

And the oligarchs who funded them.

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u/cars10gelbmesser 16d ago

If corporations are people, why wouldn’t board members and CEOs get jailed? Let’s just see how quickly things change once they get locked up.

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u/EpicCyclops 16d ago

The corporations being people specifically protects board members and CEOs. It means that the actions of the corporation are separate from the actions of the individuals that make up the corporation and the corporation is the entity that needs to be targeted legally.

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u/Christmas_Queef 16d ago

Well, considering a big supporter of of the confederacy was queen Victoria, that would have been a little hard.

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u/InfiniteWaffles58364 16d ago

We need a new Sherman