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C. § 111 makes it a federal crime to "forcibly assault, resist, oppose, impede, intimidate, or interfere" with persons designated in §1114 while they are performing official duties, and it distinguish...
Two recent decisions and secondary reporting touch on how the state’s weapons statutes, including (permit-to-carry and related “carrying in public” rules), apply in public settings, but there is no cl...
Several states have enacted laws that preempt or expressly ban local “” ordinances — a trend documented in legal reviews and advocacy maps that count at least nine states with explicit preemption and ...
sits at the intersection of federal plenary power over immigration and constitutional limits on federal coercion of the states, producing a body of doctrine anchored in the Supremacy Clause, the Spend...
There is no reliable, verifiable evidence that police have been arresting agents en masse; a widely shared clip purporting to show officers handcuffing ICE agents was generated with artificial intelli...
Since 2003, cities that enacted separation or “” ordinances have faced a shifting legal gauntlet: direct federal lawsuits and executive orders seeking to compel cooperation or withhold funds, state la...
by the collective conduct of three or more people who “disturb the public peace” by intentional acts or threats of unlawful force or violence toward persons or property, and the statute creates gradua...
president were arrested, the first official confirmations would most likely come from the and the through their public channels — followed immediately by and congressional leaders — and major news org...
’s federal complaint (Case No. 0:26-cv-00190) alleges that a set of federal and state officials took or approved measures that injure Minnesota and exceed lawful authority, invoking the and other fede...
requires a valid Permit to Carry a Pistol (PCP) to lawfully carry a handgun in public, and a permit holder must carry the permit card plus a government-issued photo ID and produce them to a peace offi...
through legal authority, fiscal leverage, and political alignment: states set the legal framework that can constrain or empower municipalities, control major revenue flows, and wield preemption or tak...
Documented instances where immigration enforcement in courtrooms most commonly take the form of state and local governments suing agencies to block or compel , and of clashes in state courthouses over...
A small set of landmark and more recent cases have tested -operations">state or local restrictions against the federal government’s exclusive control of , beginning with the ’s seminal v. Causby, 328 ...
Federal courts evaluate removal of state criminal cases for presidential‑immunity review by applying the Supreme Court’s two‑step immunity framework from Trump v. United States—first deciding whether ...