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Midnight Writer

(24,774 posts)

1. Federal agents are not authorized to violate State laws.

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Sat Sep 27, 2025, 01:49 PM

Saturday

For example, a fed cannot commit an armed robbery and walk away without consequences. Robbery is (in most cases) a violation of State law.

To say federal agents are immune from State laws means they can rape, kill, steal, assault, or damn near anything else they want.

That is neither the intent nor the implementation of the Supremacy Clause.

To overrule State law, Congress must act with a law overriding the State law.