Does anyone remember all the talk about “Sanctuary Cities” and they protect whoever for whatever (each one situational I think and focusing on immigration) and how wrong that was?
Could townships and counties declare themselves sanctuary from what they feel is Federal overreach by a fraud administration… and a step further, congress?
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IF chain of command in terms of authority is obeyed, then a county can declare itself whatever it wants to be via the Sheriff. The Sheriff is the only entity that has authority greater than ANY other official in the entire country within their jurisdiction. Not even the President can override what a Sheriff decides to do or not do.
So, technically, yes, the Sheriff of any county would be well within their established power to refuse to comply with any federal, state, or local law/order.
I think rather than that, States, counties, and towns should sue against the enforcement of any law or agency that the Federal government shouldn’t be handling or providing.
They can declare what they want. Whether they will be listened to remains to be seen.
Given the Left’s desire to label speech they don’t like as sedition, actually telling the federal government to F off might well bring them down hard.. And there is always the issue of Federal money.
Perhaps the concept of autonomous counties deserves thought.
Not even as far as “autonomous” but through town councils, boards of trustees, legally through your county board etc…
“Our citizens have rights, it’s not on us to enforce ‘your’ crushing thumb.
OUR CITIZENS WILL NOT LIVE IN FEAR
-signed, the whole town
Happened already in 2019, “sanctuary counties” against the gun control laws some states passed / proposed.
The problem, imho, is the same as my problem with Obama and sanctuary cities: the executive branch can’t just decide not to enforce laws they don’t like, any more than they can decide TO enforce laws that don’t exist. That’s not how a republic works.
Ross, what I mean as a small 6mile x 6 mile square mile township, voting through that town’s council and supervisor (legal ways), not a mayor making a declaration. Can go as far as the county level (I.e. Kootenai County). Remember, isn’t the board close to 90% red counties in America?
Supremacy Clause. You can’t legally vote or otherwise invoke power to deprive the Federal government of an enumerated power that they have. Of course, the question could well devolve to whether the Federal power being challenged is legitimate in the first place. We’ve allowed the Feds to assume power that wasn’t theirs for a century, Untangling that mess won’t be easy. A century of abdication of our power to the Feds is roughly the same thing as adverse possession of property that isn’t yours, except you’ve taken possession of it for the specified period of time, and done so in an “open and notorious” manner. Certainly the Federal government has been blatantly taking on powers not reserved to them.