If You Don’t Want Federal Agents in Your City, Then Protect Federal Property
Professor Frank Zerunyan wrote a piece featured in U.S. News and World Report and The Conversation discussing the recent deployment of federal agents in Portland, OR and the tension between Federal and State authority. He explores the question of how federal police intervention today can be reconciled with the emphasis on state sovereignty and the recognition of local police powers.
A president’s right to execute federal law and protect federal property will remain a strong exception to local control and local police power.