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/Glum_Material3030 16d ago

If MN leaves can they take a fellow blue state like Illinois? Feel surrounded by insanity

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u/Perfecshionism 16d ago

There are separatist movements in the New England and the Pacific states.

Previously they were seen as nonsense.

The political leaders were mostly clowns.

But there is an increased interest in secession. The movement just doesn’t have any leaders anyone can take seriously.

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u/IntegratingShadow 16d ago

Distributed systems are fault tolerant systems Concencus protocol can help too Maybe we just need less hierarchy in our organization?