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Can someone explain how a US state can legally/physically block access to anything from a US federal law enforcement agency?
I genuinely don't understand what's going on here.
Step 7 is optional.
More like, "I'm sorry you feel that way. This is also not an admission of guilt or fault."
"And also, we're not actually stopping."
Step 7 is get some other group (prison riot police, armed volunteers, citizens looking for a bounty payoff) to start doing it, then go back to 1.
Okay, here is the advanced legal analysis of the situation:
Laws only matter when they're enforced.
That's it. That's what Texas is banking on.
Applies to the big orange mobster and GOP too.
This is a big Republican tactic. If the Republicans [aka the GOP] have control of a state government, they can pass a law that they know will be struck down in Federal court. Say they mandate that all classrooms have a cross on the wall. The Left has to spend time and money fighting the law. Meanwhile, the GOP can tell their voters that they, the GOP, are protecting the rights of the persecuted Christians. Since the GOP runs the state government, they don't have to pay for the law suits out of their own pockets, the taxpayers foot the bill.
It a political theater that panders to their base, and costs the Left money to fight.
Well who’s going to stop them?
That’s how.
I would assume the military
Edit: and yes I realize that would be very close to civil war territory, and yes I would assume the Texas State people involved would probably be hanged