FEDERAL JUDGE GRANTS TRO IN SAF CHALLENGE OF NEW JERSEY GUN LAW [More]
I’m wondering at what point a judge is going to start sanctioning state defendants for clearly engaging in deliberate defiance and delays, and making it personal.
A Sensitive Area
18 U.S.C. 241 – Conspiracy against rights
18 U.S.C. 242 – Deprivation of rights under color of law
The federal statutes exist to criminally charge state officials who support, vote for, and sign into law, bills that expressly violate citizens’ enumerated (and non-enumerated) rights under the Constitution. That they are passing such laws so soon after a major SCOTUS ruling — and in direct defiance of said ruling — should be particularly damning evidence at their trials.
And the penalty upon conviction, in addition to fines and jail time, is that they become ineligible to hold any public office under the United States or any political subdivision thereof, presumably to include the office they currently hold.
The trouble is, who arrests them, and who prosecutes them?