The court would probably roll over and cite precedent or decline to hear a district courts decision to uphold Holder.
Question is what happens if the governor and Kansas tell the feds, go to hell and ignore the court rulings and DOJ and begin arresting federal agents for violating the states laws?
Depends on how far Kansas is willing to push. It would get even more interesting if other states joined in the arrests of federal agents and prosecutions for violations of state laws.
How would it look with hordes of FBI and US Marshalls or worse military troops roaming around five or six state capitals rounding up and arresting governors and state legislators??? PR nightmare for the feds.
That’s it - it depends on how far the states are willing to go.
Lincoln did it to MD in 1861. Suspended habeus corpus, sent in the Army - rounded up the entire legislature, Governor etc. as they were getting ready to vote on sessecion. Held them as POWs while they appointed a military dictator and imposed martial law.
The federal government plays for keeps, and I’m sure they are more than willing and capable of demonstrating that fact to Kansas or any other state that gets too uppitty.
I don’t really think that any of the States have the resources or spleen to start a civil war over it by trying to resist a federal take-over of their State.
If any of them want to try it, it would get interesting - but I think that the feds would crush them like a bug in short order.
If you don’t think that Barry and friends wouldn’t bomb a State Capitol flat to the ground like Dresden just to make a point, then I don’t think you are taking this regime quite seriously enough. They mean business.
Soetoro can make Bashir Assad look like a compassionate humanitarian if he ever goes tactical on us.
Keep pushing the “State’s rights” issue and he very well might.