The Washington Post reports:
The Trump administration late Tuesday directed federal prosecutors nationwide to investigate and potentially prosecute state and local officials who don’t cooperate with the president’s plans to carry out the largest mass deportation campaign in U.S. history, according to a document obtained by The Washington Post.
In a memo to Justice Department employees, acting deputy attorney general Emil Bove wrote that the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution and other legal authorities, “require state and local actors to comply with the Executive Branch’s immigration enforcement initiatives.”
“Federal law prohibits state and local actors from resisting, obstructing, and otherwise failing to comply with lawful immigration-related commands,” wrote Bove, a former federal prosecutor who spent recent years in private practice and was one of Donald Trump’s defense lawyers in his criminal cases.
Read the full article. Earlier this week Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis vowed to imprison local police officers who refuse to aid in deportations.
Remember when Republicans said they cared about states’ rights? And objected to “dragooning” of local officials?
— Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (@whitehouse.senate.gov) January 22, 2025 at 11:03 AM
On day two of the 2nd Trump administration, Acting Deputy A.G. Emil Bove, Trump’s hush money trial defense lawyer, calls on federal U.S. Attorneys to prosecute “state and local actors” who resist, obstruct or “fail to comply with lawful immigration-related commands and requests.” https://t.co/3RSPiVwqFu pic.twitter.com/acbVcYPKg2
— JOSH RUSSELL (@jruss_jruss) January 22, 2025