What triggered the American Civil War were state officials who refused to honor federal law and instead boasted of their open defiance of Washington. - Clarice FeldmanThat precedent apparently is the incendiary model for the weird, but
dangerous recent behavior of an increasingly unhinged California Governor Gavin Newsom.
- He is currently supporting the often-violent protestors in Los Angeles and their resistance to federal officials’ enforcement of immigration laws.
- Newsom claimed that Trump’s use of ICE to detain those here illegally in the U.S. was “reckless”, “chaotic” and “eroding trust”.
Does he think that his own rhetoric is creating calm and building trust by opposing the lawful enforcement of federal statutes?
- Or is he following the baleful model of arch-Confederate rebel Jefferson Davis?
Does Newsom support the similar defiance of fellow resistor
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass? - She all but called for official city resistance to the enforcement of federal law, with an added threat, “We will not stand for this." What does Bass...mean by “we”? All of Los Angeles? The LAPD? Will Bass use the LA police to stand against federal officers who are implementing the law and have a constitutional right and indeed requirement to enforce federal laws within the states?
Does the governor grasp that his reckless states’ rights rhetoric empowers violent protestors who
torch cars, pelt passersby, and assault officers?- Take, for example, fellow California Democrat, Congresswoman Norma Torres. She just messaged federal immigration officers with the obscene threat,“Get the f--- out of LA.” Does Torres believe that Los Angeles should become a modern-day South Carolina of 1861, boasting that it will defy the federal government?
- Is Torres echoing Democrat and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries? He just boasted that he would dox endangered ICE agents, publishing their personal information and revealing their identities (“Every single one of them, no matter what it takes, no matter how long it takes, will of course be identified.”). How exactly does Rep. Torres think she is going to get federal officers “the f--- out of LA”? Does Torres consider the now outnumbered and often threatened ICE officers to be the modern versions of surrounded federal troops at Fort Sumner?
Trump recently was merely following the precedent of the Obama administration that first issued such warnings of cut-offs to educational institutions that might not abide its own Title 9 federal policies and directives...
