A recent article in the Wall Street Journal by a Jess Bravin reported that attorneys general of many blue states are not going to give up quietly when Donald Trump, as president, begins to honor his election promises, such as the mass deportation of illegals. “A host of blue states are staffing up and building out legal battle plans for Trump’s return trip to the White House.”
When Donald Trump will be sending ICE agents to blue sanctuary states to solicit help from local sheriffs and other police forces, the only response he may get is “civil and criminal litigation” from entities such as Maryland’s Federal Litigation Unit.
No matter who may win in the long run, if there is a mere whiff of validity in their claim, even nonpartisan judges will feel obliged to order a stay of operations for the issue to be heard in detail. Taking appeals into account, this could extend to six months if not much longer.
The problem with this, then, is not only “justice delayed is justice denied,” but more importantly, the psychological damage of slowing down the MAGA momentum since the election.
There is, however, quite a simple solution to this problem.
Oppositional claims that use of the state National Guard, the military, or local police is unconstitutional or otherwise illegal can be made only by the attorney general of the state where such forces have been requested or deployed, this being because no other state would have legal standing.
So why not begin the deportations in sympathetic red states? And not just that, but of the 31 alleged states of that color, the ones generally identified as more sympathetic to the cause of deporting illegals and willing to help ICE wherever possible.
Just as, for the liberals in the media or beltway, a good result would be Donald Trump hamstrung by the courts in his attempts to manifest his primary election promise, even if temporarily, a good result for the new administration would be to have even only one state, to begin with, managing a clean sweep of illegals and removing them to destinations beyond the border.
Hellbound and Down 