Sen. Tanya Vyhovsky (D/P – Chittenden) told a rally packing the Cedar Creek Room at the Vermont State House Wednesday, January 21 that two anti-ICE bills now in Senate Judiciary could well survive a court challenge based on the Supremacy Clause in the U.S. Constitution.
S.208 and S.209 would restrict civil arrests, including immigration arrests, and would require all law enforcement officers to wear name tags and not wear masks, except in special circumstances.
A constitutional lawyer told Senate Judiciary these laws could survive federal court scrutiny if written to apply to all law enforcement- local, state and federal.
Vyhovsky said the bills will be ‘marked up’ for final review and are likely to be voted out to the full Senate next week.
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Categories: Legislation
So NOT great to see our Legislature doing us harm again! Could they please help us be safe and sovereign?!
What in the hell is…..whoops, I forgot, no profanity.
I find it amusing and or frustrating that so many do zero homework about the system they live in: you folks are “in the matrix”, so to speak. If a immigrant has done next to nothing to become a naturalized citizen of the USA, ESP if they have been here for years and haven’t lifted a finger to do so – then ICE has every right to do their job, end of discussion. If they (imm’s) on top of it all are abusing the system that “we’ve” payed into with our blood sweat and tears to support us in our declining years, and it becomes “in question” (don’t even get me started on this ideal and the sudden introduction of C19!) that that system’s very existence may not be part of “our” future – I am sorry I don’t have great feelings for those abusing the system, that includes OBVIOUSLY pocket/bank account-lining “dems and progressives”. I firmly believe in standing on the fence, or the middle of the road and defending what exists because it is supposed to work for those with patience and foundation in mind when it comes to our life path in this country. With AI blatantly bearing down on us and no UBI/HBI system already in place to support the days of so much potential human growth ahead of us I cannot support blatant abuse of the system. For the record I’m not fond of the repubs side of things either, part of the issue is (or should be) freedom OF AND FROM RELIGION – not force fed Xstian values that hold less and less weight the more informed and enlightened the populace becomes. Do your homework, we’re headed for another enlightenment period folks. It might be a bumpy ride if you’re not open-minded in functionally mature ways. Loose the blinders, it’s a key moment in human history and you’re living in it!
Gov. Scott and cronies must want to test the new replacement legislators very quickly. The plot is thickening for ICE coming to Vermont to tackle sanctuary cities.
Pay attention to the people introducing and pushing this bill. It’s the same people that have turned our state into a disaster.
If they apply to state and local police as well ? You mean they would be putting the people that would probably be the ones who would answer a call to help them at risk
as well as the dreaded ICE officers ? Maybe they’d better get the phone number of their neighborhood crackhead, because he’ll be very happy that these bone headed “law makers” did them a solid, and he might respond ! (Sarcasm)
won’t something like this throw mud in the faces of VT residences. Just came down the pike. Don’t go to AU the UK isn’t any better
“Australia Passes New Hate Speech Law, Raising Free Speech Fears”
https://reclaimthenet.org/australia-passes-new-hate-speech-law
This article sorta heads in that direction The pdf 56 page of the law is linked herein.