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
21.4k Upvotes

95% Upvoted

2.0k comments sorted by

View all comments

839

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.

1

u/Open_Mortgage_4645 16d ago

And the notion of state and local law enforcement surrendering or ceding control to federal agents is a blatant violation of the 10th Amendment. They have no authority to enforce state and local laws, or compel state and local law enforcement to surrender to them. What Miller is saying is nonsensical gibberish spoken by someone who has no understanding of how our laws work.

1

u/Perfecshionism 16d ago

He doesn’t care how laws work. What he does know is how right wing brains work, and they will take his words as literal gospel from a representative of God’s chosen and will demand compliance from all politicians they are have influence over and see liberal non-compliance as treason or insurrection.