If the SC said AZ cannot enforce federal law, why can’t AZ refuse to enforce ALL federal laws?
If the SC said AZ cannot enforce federal law, why can’t AZ refuse to enforce ALL federal laws?
“If the SC said AZ cannot enforce federal law, why can’t AZ refuse to enforce ALL federal laws?”
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Starting with the collection and submission of taxes to the Royals on the Potomac.
good idea. what fed laws does Ariz enforce?
A “state” deals with its own laws, while the Federal Government doesn’t deal with the state laws.
And likewise, the Federal Government deals with its own laws, while the state doesn’t.
Each have their own set of laws that they -exclusively- deal with - while the “other” doesn’t.
If the state were to arrest someone “for the Federal Government” - it’s only the Federal Government who would determine what to do with them (and not the state).
Likewise, if the Federal Government were to arrest someone “for the state” - it’s only the state which would determine what to do with them, and not the Federal Government.
In many cases, there may be something that “both” the Federal Government and the state may be interested in a person for - but they each would deal with that person on the basis of their own laws - and not laws pertaining to another jurisdiction.
More specifically, if the state arrests someone for the Federal Government, the state doesn’t have jurisdiction over what the Federal Government does in regards to “Federal laws”.
Each has its own jurisdiction for its own laws.
In case you don’t know ... the states don’t get in the middle of Federal laws, as the Federal authorities deal with that. The states may arrest someone if there is an arrest warrant out for them by the Federal authorities, but the states then don’t do any more than that and simply let the Federal authorities take care of their Federal laws. The state officials will simply turn a person arrested over to the Federal authorities and then it’s COMPLETELY UP TO THE FEDERAL AUTHORITIES as to what they do - and not up to the State.
It’s the same thing with Federal authorities, in that they may have arrested someone who has violated a state law and then the Federal authorities turn them over to the state officials to handle their own laws. The Federal authorities don’t get in the middle of State laws and the state officials don’t get in the middle of Federal laws.
That’s the way it’s always been and it’s nothing new.
That's the only response that seems likely to work at this point. The state of Arizona should point-blank refuse to enforce any federal law or provide assistance to federal government in any way, using this USSC decision to justifiably say -- "we've been told we CAN'T enforce these laws".