← Atlas Theme · spans 1 topics
Federal power can pressure local police — it cannot commandeer them.
From sanctuary-city limits to the federalized Guard in Washington, courts are enforcing the constitutional baseline that direction of domestic law enforcement belongs to states and localities, however hard federal money and federal force lean on it.
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US Politics
D.C. Circuit Hears Merits on Trump's National Guard Takeover of the Capital — Judges Ask Where the Limits Are The National Guard takeover tests the same local-policing baseline in the capital, with the appellate panel pressing the Posse Comitatus line.
US Politics
DOJ's Sanctuary-City Campaign Loses in New York: "No Valid Basis to Sue" Over NYC's Limits on Immigration Cooperation The sanctuary-city suit was dismissed at the threshold because federal law cannot conscript local police into deportation enforcement — the anti-commandeering baseline holding again.