#Trump #civilwar #ICE
We have reports in corporate media that Trump's Department of Injustice is now threatening state and local officials who don't cooperate with his anti-migrant pogrom with prosecution.
This doesn't just mean trying to arrest ICE agents for their crimes, it presumably means any failure to allow ICE to fish in jails and courthouses, to trespass them from public schools, anythihg.
Presumably such prosecutions would be for obstruction. Obstructing INJUSTICE however is a DUTY not an offense, opening the door to jury nullification.
Beyond that, this has the potential for open-ended state on state or state vs Federal escalation. A problem for resisting states will be that they cannot trust their police or National Guard troops not to treasonously turn on them and side with Trump if they seek to physically resist Federal arrest of their officials for standing up to Naziism.
If the Federal government is trying to cooerce states to participate in criminal acts such as pogroms, this could force states that are serious about protecting people to secede from the Union. Trump would probably meet this with invasion. Given the doubtful loyalty of existing police and National Guard troops, such states may have to raise new armies of reliable but hastily-trained fighters. Politicans could resign instead, but that protects nobody but themselves.
Thus, we see this threat by DOJ has the potential to escalate all the way to state on state civil war.
We have reports in corporate media that Trump's Department of Injustice is now threatening state and local officials who don't cooperate with his anti-migrant pogrom with prosecution.
This doesn't just mean trying to arrest ICE agents for their crimes, it presumably means any failure to allow ICE to fish in jails and courthouses, to trespass them from public schools, anythihg.
Presumably such prosecutions would be for obstruction. Obstructing INJUSTICE however is a DUTY not an offense, opening the door to jury nullification.
Beyond that, this has the potential for open-ended state on state or state vs Federal escalation. A problem for resisting states will be that they cannot trust their police or National Guard troops not to treasonously turn on them and side with Trump if they seek to physically resist Federal arrest of their officials for standing up to Naziism.
If the Federal government is trying to cooerce states to participate in criminal acts such as pogroms, this could force states that are serious about protecting people to secede from the Union. Trump would probably meet this with invasion. Given the doubtful loyalty of existing police and National Guard troops, such states may have to raise new armies of reliable but hastily-trained fighters. Politicans could resign instead, but that protects nobody but themselves.
Thus, we see this threat by DOJ has the potential to escalate all the way to state on state civil war.
