An appeals court has blocked a California law passed in 2025 requiring federal immigration agents to wear a badge or some form of identification.
The Trump administration filed a lawsuit in November challenging the law, arguing that it would threaten the safety of officers who are facing harassment, doxing, and violence and that it violated the constitution because the state is directly regulating the federal government.
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Natanael@slrpnk.net · 59 pts · 116d
Arrest every unidentified federal officer for impersonation.
Either they prove who they are or you get to argue they're criminal frauds
shirasho@feddit.online · 27 pts · 116d
If an officer is doing the job they are expected to do then they shouldn't have to worry about doxxing or their livelihoods.
Zaktor@sopuli.xyz · 18 pts · 116d
It's unfortunate that most of the people who would enforce this are chuds who dream of the level of unaccountable power ICE gets to enjoy, because sooner or later the answer to this should be "fuck you, we don't recognize your right to send masked goons to our state". Shove that supremacy up your ass, legitimacy derives from the consent of the governed.
Next up, it's unconstitutional to prosecute the gestapo for summary public executions because supremacy.
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 116d
Original Associated Press article
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 116d
4am@lemmy.zip · 13 pts · 116d
Yeah no shit Bennett, that’s what the fuck laws are supposed to be FOR
Ludicrous0251@piefed.zip · 13 pts · 116d
What are the implications here? Are federal workers immune to all state laws? Can the USPS tear through my neighborhood drunk driving at 98mph? Can DOE labs dump toxic chemicals in the woods, so long as they don't cross state lines? Can HUD developments just ignore all building codes?
aow@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 115d
Re: USPS, yes. The difference is that they'd be punished internally and referred over to the state. If you're driving a mail truck you can't be legally stopped by the police because of jurisdiction. Does that matter in practice? Not really, because the average person will act to minimize harm and voluntarily stop or stop someone who is a danger to others.
Wilco@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 115d
A postal vehicle can be stopped by police ... but when they are stopped they must be let go within 15 minutes or be charged with delaying the mail service 18 U.S.C. § 1701–1703
This would be enforced by a postal inspector and moved to a federal prosecutor (US Attorney) and the charge bypasses all qualified immunity.
For this reason the police almost never mess with postal vehicles.
Source: I got stopped in a postal vehicle by a state trooper for bypassing a weigh station ... it went really badly for the guy.
phoenixz@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 115d
How dumb are these judges?
Si they're fine with u identified armed men in unidentified cars to roll up to somebody, drag them off the streets, and disappear them
Ah, I see the problem. It's only for poor brown people,nah, that's fine. As long as they don't bother rich white people, they can do whatever the fuck they want
Until somebody stops them.
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone · 5 pts · 115d
So unreasonable that federal employees work for and are accountable to the people.
Jaysyn@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 115d
It's past time for the anti-fascists to start a Nuremberg caucus
FireXtol@piefed.social · 3 pts · 116d
Stand your ground then. Shrug
Lirton@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 114d
Assuming how "great" cyber security became in the USA recently, later or sooner all data on ICE workers will leak out. I guess, that then the reverse hunt will begin?