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A US district judge is weighing whether the surge of ICE agents in the state violates the US Constitution or falls within the executive’s power to enforce federal law.
If a federal prosecutor were to put a city’s mayor or a state’s governor in jail, what may be the greatest source of conflict in the Constitution will become clear to the public.
The Supreme Court has yet to rule on whether school dress codes are protected under the law.
States claim the stimulus law assaults state sovereignty by barring local governments from using aid money to cut taxes. But the Supreme Court has consistently approved conditions on federal spending.
No one involved in local government wants to see federal law enforcement agents take over their policing. But a mayor who’s also a legal scholar says there’s history and precedent for it.
States once used their constitutional authority to argue in defense of slavery. Today, states can make a similar argument to protect immigrants from deportation, writes a legal scholar.
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Herbert Kurz Chair in Constitutional Rights, City University of New York
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Professor of the Practice of Governance, University of Southern California
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