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   From: MeanDog@Menace.Dash   
      
   On Fri, 24 Oct 2025 21:05:01 -0400, Ubiquitous    
   wrote:   
      
   >The insurrection continues apace. California officials, including Nancy   
   >Pelosi, have threatened to arrest and criminally prosecute ICE agents who   
   >allegedly violate California law. Pelosi and Congressman Kevin Mullin issued   
   >this press release on Wednesday:   
   >   
   >:Reports of a planned mass immigration raid in the Bay Area are an appalling   
   >:abuse of law enforcement power. Broad sweeps that target families and   
   >:terrorize law-abiding residents betray our nation’s values and waste   
   >:resources that should focus on real threats to public safety.   
   >:   
   >:It is important to note that California law protects communities and   
   >:prevents federal agents from taking certain actions here that we have   
   >:witnessed in other states. While the President may enjoy absolute immunity   
   >:courtesy of his rogue Supreme Court, those who operate under his orders do   
   >:not. Our state and local authorities may arrest federal agents if they   
   >:break California law — and if they are convicted, the President cannot   
   >:pardon them.   
   >:   
   >:The people of San Francisco will continue to stand with the patriotic   
   >:immigrants who are the constant reinvigoration of America. We will not be   
   >:intimidated by politically motivated fear tactics.   
   >:   
   >This statement can charitably be described as disgraceful. What are the   
   >“certain actions” that federal agents have taken elsewhere that supposedly   
   >would be illegal in California, and under what California laws? Pelosi   
   >isn’t saying. The reference to “his rogue Supreme Court” is outrageous,   
   >as is the threat that convictions under state law would be beyond   
   >presidential pardon.   
   >   
   >Yesterday, the Department of Justice fired back:   
   >   
   >:The Justice Department on Thursday warned California officials, including   
   >:Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), against engaging in an “apparent criminal   
   >:conspiracy” to arrest Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.   
   >:   
   >:Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche issued the letter to Pelosi, Gov.   
   >:Gavin Newsom, state Attorney General Rob Bonta and San Francisco District   
   >:Attorney Brooke Jenkins after the former House speaker suggested Wednesday   
   >:that local police could arrest ICE agents if they violate state laws while   
   >:carrying out immigration enforcement operations.   
   >:   
   >:“Rather than supporting and working with federal law enforcement   
   >:professionals, California politicians, including U.S. Representative Nancy   
   >:Pelosi and San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins, have instead   
   >:called for state and local law enforcement officials to ‘arrest’ federal   
   >:agents and officers for enforcing federal laws enacted by the U.S. Congress,   
   >:including federal immigration laws,” Blanche wrote in his missive.   
   >:   
   >:“The Department of Justice views any arrests of federal agents and officers   
   >:in the performance of their official duties as both illegal and futile,” he   
   >:added. “Numerous federal laws prohibit interfering with and impeding   
   >:immigration or other law-enforcement operations.”   
   >:   
   >:Blanche said the DOJ would “investigate and prosecute any state or local   
   >:official” who flouts federal statutes or directs or conspires with others   
   >:to violate them.   
   >   
   >The prospect of arrests and counter-arrests is disheartening, to say the   
   >least. What is going on here is not a legitimate state-based concern about   
   >specific actions of law enforcement, but rather an unconstitutional   
   >obstruction of the enforcement of federal immigration laws. Under the   
   >Supremacy Clause, federal law takes precedence over state law. The states   
   >have no ability to nullify immigration law, and any attempt to obstruct   
   >the execution of federal law would be, as Assistant Attorney General   
   >Blanche wrote, a crime.   
   >   
   >The Democrats are becoming ever more insurrectionist, with consequences   
   >that are impossible to foresee, but are likely to be catastrophic.   
      
   Interfering with federal agents doing their job is a felony.   
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