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New California law bans federal agents from wearing masks in showdown over immigration raids (calmatters.org)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/california@lemmy.world
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In January, the state of California and its largest county will ban law enforcement officers from covering their faces, with a few exceptions, putting local and state police at odds with masked immigration agents.

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[–] 2 points 10 months ago

Expect the feds to invoke the Supremacy Clause and claim being arrested interferes with them executing their duty as a federal agent. They are going to blatantly ignore this law. We're not going to win this by pitting just state laws against unjust federal agents.

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