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   From: MeanDog@Menace.Dash   
      
   On Tue, 28 Oct 2025 18:18:55 -0400, Governor Swill   
    wrote:   
      
   >On Tue, 28 Oct 2025 11:34:44 -0400, Collectivism_Always_Fails   
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >>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.   
   >   
   >Civil disobedience has long been a form of protest used by, not just   
   >Americans, but other peoples as well.   
      
   They best be careful because interfering with federal agents doing   
   their job is a felony.   
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