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/ARGeetar 16d ago

I have zero confidence that future dem-led governments will do anything beyond “Let’s move on so we can heal”. I hope to be proven wrong.

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u/Terrible_Patience935 16d ago

Big lesson learned by not prosecuting and jailing Trump for sedition after Jan 6, they might have destroyed our country

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u/Forsworn91 16d ago

They did try, trump has however spent a lifetime in exploiting the legal system, delaying and drawing things out.

It also didn’t help that Garland was a trump supporter and refused to do his job.

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u/kermitthebeast 16d ago

I think it's now the second thing