The anti-commandeering doctrine (from cases like New York v. United States (1992) and Printz v. United States (1997)) prohibits the federal government from forcing states to enact or enforce federal programs (e.g., no commandeering state officials to run federal background checks). Coercion via funding threats is a related but distinct limit.

I’d much rather see MUST than MAY in that phrase. Seems like Mr. Homan’s being a bit cute with his report. Aren’t Minnesota sheriffs largely loaded against handing over the bad guys to ICE? Or is that just the press who reports on them?

But people are noticing that Secretary Noem is a problem.

I will be extremely disappointed if some deal was cut which gives Walz and Frye immunity from prosecution. That’s a bridge too far for me. If they were involved in the fraud, they need to be perp walked. Getting damn tired of the administration all talk and just small fry arrests. The big kahunas need to be taken down. Not holding my breath.

— physicsguy

It takes a lot of political capital to take down the big kahunas, unfortunately, and Trump et al have a finite amount of that.

If it helps, compare the present situation to the first Trump term, or the second term of Bush the Younger. When you make that contrast, you can see that things have moved considerably in the right direction.

I remember back when Republicans kept wondering why Trump didn’t dismiss Jeff Sessions* as Attorney-General when he let the Dems and the Deep State run rampant. I used to get into debates on-line in which I had to remind people that yes, Trump could have fired Sessions, but then who would he have appointed that the Dems in the Senate or (even more important and worse) the business-wing Republicans** in the Senate) would confirm? Any replacement for Sessions would have been, at best no better, and might have had to be worse.

Bondi is far from perfect, but she’s a big improvement over Sessions. Patel is better than Wray. Vance is vastly better than Pence. Things are a long way from perfect, but they do seem to be moving slowly in the right direction.

*I honestly don’t know what Sessions’ issue was. As a Senator he had done yeoman work, he was one of the early voices against ‘Comprehensive Amnesty’.
In fact, I would go so far as to say that America has two people principally to thank for the horrible Kennedy-Bush-etc. amnesty bills in 2006 and 2007 not ending up becoming law: Rush Limbaugh and Senator Sessions.

But as A-G Sessions just couldn’t seem to oppose the Deep State. I don’t know if he couldn’t admit to himself that the Justice Department had become that corrupt, or if he was operating under some mistaken sense of ‘civility’ or what.

** The business wing ‘establishment’ Republicans are still there, though they’re much less influential now than they were 2017-2021. They still want to go back to the pre-2016 open borders status quo. The Governor of Oklahoma recently piped up that we could solve the illegals issue by issuing work permits, i.e. legalize them. Amnesty.

Thom Tillis has piped up again lately, too. He’s been much quieter this time than he was 2017-2021, but he’s still a creature of North Caroline business interests, and he still wants open borders and amnesty.

Trump has done yeoman work since a year ago, but he’s still constantly being blocked and interfered with behind the scenes by this bunch.

I also agree with physicsguy that it would be unsatisfactory if Walz and Frey skate on any provable corruption charges. On the other hand, sometimes criminals avoid justice by providing info about other criminals to the authorities.
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Thinking about the increasing threat of civil war here, and how terrible it would be. When it ends, USA would be radically transformed, perhaps not for the better.

Oh, I think he could with a campaign that went something like; “Hey folks! Wanna see a rabid dog bite Tim Walz in the a**?! Then this November vote Walz for Hennepin County dogcatcher!”

The Trump Administration and GOP are being presented with such a choice. Seeking to avoid the bloodshed that insurrection and even civil war would bring, they are seeking to “deescalate” and reach a compromise of sorts. This is a major mistake and just as with WWII, it will lead to far more bloodshed and deaths.

Upon regaining power in 2028, now a distinct probability, given the constant and unrelenting demonization in the mass media of Trump, his administration and ICE. Propaganda especially effective with low-info independent voters, along with the certainty of high democrat voter turnout in 2028.

The Marxist in all but name democrats have announced their intention to prosecute and imprison Trump, top officials in his administration such as Miller, Bovino, & Homan and field ICE agents. They’ll pass laws effectively gutting the second amendment and pack the Supreme Court so that their laws are ruled to be ‘constitutional’. Implement redistricting that effectively disenfranchises republican representation, as is going on in NYC & Virginia right now.

They will do what they think they have to do to never lose power again because it’s always been about power and control for them. Mamdani and Virginia Gov. Spanburger are just the beginning. They will force a far harsher civil war upon us because their ‘solutions’ will become ever more intolerable.

“The GOAL of socialism IS communism!” Vladimir Lenin