Now, here’s a reactive little law that went into place. Yeesh
The bill, which covers 61 pages, makes several changes to Florida criminal and administrative law, and will:
Make it more difficult for cities and counties to reduce funding for law enforcement, allowing local elected officials to challenge those budget decisions, and giving the state power to approve or amend the local budget
Allow those local governments to be sued if they fail to stop a riot
Define “riot” as a violent public disturbance involving 3 or more people acting with common intent resulting in injury to others, damage to property, or the imminent danger of injury or damage
Enhance penalties for people who commit crimes during a riot
Create a new second-degree felony called an “aggravated riot,” which occurs when the riot has more than 25 participants, causes great bodily harm or more than $5,000 in property damage, uses or threatens to use a deadly weapon, or blocks roadways by force or threat of force
US is more centralized than you think. FDR started the trend of literally forcing states to do what the Federal government wants, or else certain grants, taxes, etc. don’t go to that state. That was how drinking age is 21 across ALL states even though it’s a state level thing. Federal government is taking a role that the Constitution never intended for it to take (the truth is the US Constitution was intending the Federal government to be more like the EU, meaning controlling things that affected all states such as interstate trade and foreign policy).
Not when it comes to policing… not even in the same city sometimes (city police, sheriffs, highway patrol, all working differently, with overlapping jurisdiction).
Yea, which leads to problems with double jeopardy, which is illegal according to the US Constitution, but is allowed because they lawyered their way out of it.
Lawyers is how rights are infringed, but only militaries can get it back (hopefully).
But the FBI could prosecute you on the same charge. Has happened again and again and SCOTUS says it’s legal.
And many Federal law and state law overlap, and they can BS their way with interstate commerce clause. That’s why ATF can arrest a person for possessing guns, because they can BS their way around it.
Typically you can’t be prosecuted for the same underlying acts even if there are different charges attached to them. However, that doesn’t apply between different sovereigns, like a state and the federal government.
Guy gets arrested for felon in possession of firearms in the state. Does state time.
Then ATF picks him up and gives him 2 more years.
Happens ALL THE TIME.
Google “dual sovereign”. Basically the law treats United States of America and state as separate countries with overlapping territories. So both can prosecute you separately if they want to.
Same with bank robberies. Robber does time for robbery. Then gets 20 more years on top of their state years for the same robbery.
It is highly unconstitutional but SCOTUS allows it because you know, safety and security and all that right?? ACLU of all people actually filed the case on it.
Everything in the US Bill of Rights were things the British government denied them.
Before I get started there are some VERY scary things in the US Patriot Act. Things that could have any organizations (including ACLU) declared as terrorist organizations.
Dude. So, you’ve gone from city police, county sheriff, and highway patrol bringing up double jeopardy concerns, to federal double jeopardy happening “all the time,” to specifically dual sovereignty cases, which I don’t think actually happens all the time (if you got some references to them being a common issue I’d love to read them).
Yes, I know there’s exceptions. Just not in the cases where you initially brought it up (pd, sheriff, highway patrol), and I’m not going to take it at face value that it’s common at the federal level.
It’s a police state, stoopid, and we’re all hajis.
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