Federal appeals court blocks California law requiring federal agents to wear identification

Clearly what they meant was “no harm is being done (to us), but if we have to give the money back then that is too hard (for us)”

From the NYT last week : [The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/us/politics/supreme-court-shadow-docket.html?unlocked_article_code=1.cFA.Z-s1.Zei_Zphdv8Oo&smid=url-share) > Just after 6 p.m. on a February evening in 2016, the Supreme Court issued a cryptic, one paragraph ruling that sent both climate policy and the court itself spinning in new directions. > For two centuries, the court had generally handled major cases at a stately pace that encouraged care and deliberation, relying on written briefs, oral arguments and in-person discussions. The justices composed detailed opinions that explained their thinking to the public and rendered judgment only after other courts had weighed in. > But this time, the justices were sprinting to block a major presidential initiative. By a 5-to-4 vote along partisan lines, the order halted President Barack Obama’s Clean Power Plan, his signature environmental policy. They acted before any other court had addressed the plan’s lawfulness. The decision consisted of only legal boilerplate, without a word of reasoning. It gets into the origins of the Shadow Docket and how its been used in the past decade.

Judges are the bad guys in this country. They have been since the beginning of time.

The problem is that Democrats hold other Democrats accountable. Republicans protect the party at all costs. A Democrat doing what Trump has done would be impeached with Democratic support.

Hell! Some of us are even cheering them on! (Well, not *US*, but you know who I mean.)

Who do you think will decide the suit? SCOTUS decides everything in the end. Better to work to elect as many democratic Senators as possible so we can impeach them. It takes over 60 to have the power w out concern

The government decides who gets to sue them.

I hate how f****** true that statement is

Cops nowadays only care about the paycheck

Except that means there is absolutely no distinction between you and any other trafficker, so anyone in their right mind, along with everyone nearby, would resist with the most force possible.

They're so stupid that they think their paychecks, phone records, and other passive tracking won't expose their identities.

You can do the same with a badge, though...

That’s bullshit. All those folks in “gun country” don’t do shit when it happens there.

I would honestly be surprised if the folks who insist on carrying everywhere aren't already vehemently in support of mass deportations and concentration camps so I don't think anything would happen in places with ten times as many guns 

Ice won’t wait patiently for us to phone another agency. They’ll claim our phone is a weapon and shoot us or assault us

The Supremacy Clause would require a law passed at the federal level that is at odds with this law, meaning one that explicitly allows federal agents to be anonymous while performing their assigned duties. No such law exists, so there's no supremacy to override state law on these requirements. Also remember that any power not explicitly granted to the federal government (in the form of constitutional amendments or laws passed by congress) is automatically ceded to the states. This is part of the reason the Interstate Commerce clause has been abused so heavily to justify federal action on a number of different subjects that are... questionably relevant to that clause.

The supremacy clause doesn’t mean the Feds can violate any state laws they wish.

Same court?

And this is just the ones that got caught

You mean the trans person, right? HEAVY /s

Yea they kinda look like Caesars legion with access to crye precision and the like instead of football pads.

"Jesus" ain't here. We tossed him in the van.

Oh the government is small, alright.  Oh, you thought they meant the government's power? No no, they mean the number of people wielding it.

To regulate people who are claiming to be federal officers. If they can't prove they are federal officers, they should be treated as impersonators

While true, that want stop the current admin from treating it like one.

So just like any other criminal organization