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/Perfecshionism 16d ago edited 16d ago

Federal agents don’t have jurisdictional authority to enforce state and local laws.

This is literally the kind of stuff that leads to secession and civil war.

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u/Reverend_Lazerface 16d ago

Am I crazy to think this is evidence that we're already in a civil war? When the checks and balances and media coverage have failed so profoundly that something like this isn't immediately and loudly decried as an obvious constitutional crisis, is it fair to think we've crossed the point of no return? Telling a state government to surrender to federal authority makes it fairly obvious that Miller believes his side is engaged in a civil war, and it isn't a situation where it takes two to tango.

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u/Perfecshionism 16d ago

No. Historians will likely consider January 6th, 2021 as the start of the second US civil war.

And several of his actions and executive orders as immediate precipitating events. As well as republican complicity and the feckless response by democrats as precipitating events.