[vkou]

MN can't even give two murderers a fair trial because apparently Trump's goons can kill anyone they want, and then go scurry off like roaches.

If states had autonomy, those animals and their accomplices would be behind bars right now.

[cyberax]

> MN can't even give two murderers a fair trial because apparently Trump's goons can kill anyone they want, and then go scurry off like roaches.

Give it time.

> If states had autonomy, those animals and their accomplices would be behind bars right now.

So that southern states could just shoot the Federal agents de-segregating schools, right? It's always a balancing act.

The key here is that the power is _distributed_. Nobody has the absolute power, even if it seems so. And it doesn't even matter that much that individual states are less than incorrupt (see: TX, WA, IL). All that matters is that they have their own agendas that don't necessarily align with the Federal one.

[vkou]

Murder is a capital crime regardless of who you work for.

Those fucks were violating both federal and state law.

'Give it time' will only work if the GOP is removed from power. Otherwise, not a single thing will happen.

Otherwise, you are demonstrating that states are in practice fully subservient to the federal government. Because the latter can, de facto, do whatever it wants in them.

[pocksuppet]

> Murder is a capital crime regardless of who you work for.

Not true btw, the military can do it.

[salawat]

Not as part of a domestic police action (Posse Comitatus), and under the constraint of at least directing it against enemy combatants & regulars (conventions of international warfare). Now, if either of those two are violated the calculus changes, and I leave it as an exercise to the student to decide which side one's sympathies should lay with. I damn well know where my lines are drawn.

[vkou]

Homicide is not always murder, but what we saw in Minnesota was murder by any definition.

[cyberax]

BTW, another example of autonomy is the fact that Trump had to send ICE agents in the first place. He could not just order the local police to perform the raids, there's simply no chain of command for that.

In Russia, it would have been one phone call from the Kremlin to the local chief of police.

[vkou]

You'll find that in most countries, town cops don't take orders from the federal government.

[cyberax]

Not so. For example, in France all the police are overseen centrally, and the president can take direct control.

The US is actually unusual in that the President does not have _any_ local control over police. You'll see a similar pattern pretty much everywhere: schools, construction, licensing, urban policy, etc.