GOP Senator Rand Paul has suggested that the leftist Mayor of Denver could be turfed out of office for vowing to defy president-elect Trump’s mass deportation plans.
Appearing on CBS News, Paul said Denver Mayor Mike Johnston’s open defiance of federal immigration laws would be “a form of insurrection” and would make it to the Supreme Court.
Johnston’s has stated that he will make Denver a “fortress of resistance” to protect illegal immigrants, promising to mobilise police officers and encourage residents to form human barricades to obstruct federal authorities.
“The mayor of Denver, if he’s going to resist federal law, which is a long-standing history of the supremacy of federal law, if he’s going to resist that, it will go all the way to the Supreme Court,” Senator Paul noted.
He continued, “I would suspect that he would be removed from office. I don’t know whether or not there’d be a criminal prosecution for someone resisting federal law, but he will lose.”
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