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   From: katt@gmail.com   
      
   On Sun, 11 Jan 2026 22:41:16 -0800,  Alan says...   
      
   > > Why wouldn't local law work with ICE instead of turning   
   > > their backs? Turnabout is fair play.   
   >   
   > What does that have to do with why the feds are PREVENTING local law   
   > enforcement from investigatin?   
      
   Addendum:   
      
   The Supremacy Clause and "Obstruction"   
      
   The federal government sometimes uses the SUPREMACY CLAUSE OF THE U.S.   
   CONSTITUTION to block local interference. They may argue that a local   
   investigation or prosecution would "interfere with the performance of federal   
   duties."   
      
   If federal authorities believe a local investigation is compromising an   
   undercover operation or a sensitive federal case, they may claim that federal   
   law "preempts" state law.   
      
   In the Minneapolis incident, federal officials essentially invoked a form of   
   this by declaring the investigation "federally led." This creates a situation   
   where the local jurisdiction is legally allowed to investigate but is   
   physically and administratively blocked from doing so because the feds refuse   
   to share the "body of the case."   
      
   When local authorities are blocked, their options are limited because there is   
   no simple "boss" that rules over both. THE HENNEPIN COUNTY ATTORNEY OR THE   
   MINNESOTA ATTORNEY GENERAL CANNOT SIMPLY ORDER THE FBI TO HAND OVER FILES.   
      
   Since they cannot win a "turf war" through force, local officials often turn   
   to public statements or letters to the Department of Justice (DOJ) to demand   
   transparency.   
      
   Theoretically, a local prosecutor could attempt to get a state court order for   
   evidence, but the federal government usually successfully argues that federal   
   law protects their active investigative files from state subpoenas.   
      
   Usually, the local investigation is forced into a "holding pattern." THE STATE   
   MUST WAIT UNTIL THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT FINISHES ITS CASE AND RELEASES THE   
   EVIDENCE before they can decide whether to file their own state-level charges.   
      
   Get it, got it... good!   
      
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   "Trump Derangement Syndrome" Is a Real Mental Condition   
      
   All you need to know about "Trump Derangement Syndrome," or TDS.   
      
   "Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) is a mental condition in which a person has   
   been driven effectively insane due to their dislike of Donald Trump, to the   
   point at which they will abandon all logic and reason."   
      
   Justin Raimondo, the editorial director of Antiwar.com, wrote a piece in the   
   Los Angeles Times in 2016 that broke TDS down into three distinct phases or   
   stages:   
      
   "In the first stage of the disease, victims lose all sense of proportion. The   
   president-elect's every tweet provokes a firestorm, as if 140 characters were   
   all it took to change the world."   
      
   "The mid-level stages of TDS have a profound effect on the victim's   
   vocabulary: Sufferers speak a distinctive language consisting solely of   
   hyperbole."   
      
   "As TDS progresses, the afflicted lose the ability to distinguish fantasy from   
   reality."   
      
   The Point here is simple: TDS is, in the eyes of its adherents, the knee-jerk   
   opposition from liberals to anything and everything Trump does. If Trump   
   announced he was donating every dollar he's ever made, TDS sufferers would   
   suggest he was up to something nefarious, according to the logic of TDS.   
   There's nothing - not. one. thing. - that Trump could do or say that would be   
   received positively by TDSers.   
      
   The history of Trump Derangement Syndrome actually goes back to the early   
   2000s - a time when the idea of Trump as president was a punch line for late-   
   night comics and nothing more.   
      
   Wikipedia traces its roots to "Bush Derangement Syndrome" - a term first   
   coined by the late conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer back in 2003.   
   The condition, as Krauthammer defined it, was "the acute onset of paranoia in   
   otherwise normal people in reaction to the policies, the presidency - nay -   
   the very existence of George W. Bush."   
      
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