A President with a nationwide force for mass arrests would be among the worst fears of America's Founders. They faced such issues in Fugitive Slave Acts, which mandated arrests by local officials & private slave-catchers, with certification under federal courts. www.thebulwark.com/p/the-worst-...
His EO also proclaimed his intent to use this massive new army to arrest and imprison the homeless, the poor and the mentally ill. As measured by our insatiable desire for incarceration, we are unmistakably the least free society on earth. It’s about to become much worse.
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We already have the FBI, which, indeed, the Founders would hate.
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