Link without paywall:https://www.thedailybeast.com/raging-stephen-miller-suggests-arresting-blue-state-governor-jb-pritzker/
Stephen Miller said that Governor J.B. Pritzker could be arrested for engaging in a “criminal conspiracy.”
When asked by Fox host Will Cain on Friday under what authority a governor could potentially be arrested, the White House Deputy Chief of Staff said that the Department of Justice “has made clear that if officials cross that line into obstruction, into criminal conspiracy against the United States or against ICE officers, then they will face justice.”
Miller’s statement comes after President Donald Trump claimed that Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and Pritzker should be “in jail for failing to protect ICE officers.”
On Oct. 23, the Illinois governor signed an executive order establishing the “Illinois Accountability Commission,” which will track “abuses” and hold Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents “accountable” following the Department of Homeland Security’s launch of “Operation Midway Blitz” in Chicago.
I never thought I would find myself joining the war on states’ rights on the side of states’ rights.
It’s like that saying the inmates are running the asylum. The Confederates are running the Federal government.
Which is why I maintain that the civil war never ended, it just went cold.
Andrew Johnson was the first victory of the south in the long cold war that followed.
It would be funny if people went to protests dressed as union soldiers with signs like “slavery lost”.
I feel like it would infuriate the miller and carlson types.
That’s because the entire issue is that the people whose ideologies you are fighting against don’t actually have consistent ideologies. Their ideology boils down to “what is beneficial to me to gain power that that specific time.” Once that time has passed and the opposite becomes more beneficial to them, they will switch sides, because that’s all that really matters to them.
When states’ rights becomes convenient to them again, they will switch back to supporting them just as effortlessly as they switched to states’ rights not being important. There is no end, there is no bottom, they have no shame. They only have the pursuit and expression of power. Which honestly explains why so many of them are rapists and kiddie diddlers since both of those are about gaining and executing power over the powerless.
The Governors failing to protect the people who the governor sued the federal government for sending there. What the hell judge would ever be able to uphold any of it. Is it possible, maybe but it’s like me going to a bar and being told to leave because I was banned, sneaking in the backdoor, the bar tender telling me to leave and then throwing a punch at the bouncer and expecting a judge to say the establishment failed to keep me safe when the bouncer threw me on the curb.
Why not? The US was designed to have a weak federal system.
Because states rights has long been a bigoted dogwhistle. Early on it was states rights to have slavery, but rejecting states rights to declare every person on their soil free; then it became about Jim Crow, then abortion and gay issues and to a lesser extent cannabis, but only when the federal government was considering banning the bigoted option. The people chanting states rights about abortion aren’t anymore and are cracking down on the rights of pregnant people to leave their states to get an abortion.
States rights were also a profound force against slavery.