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You don't think Jill Biden was the duly elected First Lady?
She was the First Lady, but she was not elected in any way. Do you remember seeing her name on a ballot? I don't. That's why the voting public were shocked to find out she was helping lead cabinet meetings. The good doctor was not elected.
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The real bellwether will be what happens in House elections in 2026. Trump was already divisive enough that the Republican majority in the House shrank in 2024.
And yet they hold every single branch of government.
The last gasp of conservativism.
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They were wearing uniforms, I watched the video. Badges were not clearly visible in the video, but they certainly had uniforms.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/nyregion/brad-lander-immi... No-one in the banner image of this article has a uniform? Is it too much to ask to be uniformed while acting in this capacity? There doesn't seem to be a need for subterfuge, they just don't want the bad optics.
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> any citizen has the right to raise this as an issue, politician or not. They don't get to just haul people away because you have no "official capacity". Yes, you do have a right to raise this as an issue... but not anywhere anyway. In all this discussion about the rule of law, we forget that the rule of the law also dictates how citizen redresses are to be handled... in a court of law, using established procedures.…
1. I suggest you check the meaning of equivocation. I think you meant equivalence. 2. I did not equate the two, other than as a means of resisting tyranny. You have no legal right (other than in NH) to seek to overthrow the government, 2nd amendment or otherwise.
If someone is trying to overthrow the government - they will be Patriots if they win.
Legal doesn't matter at all if someone is at that point
I feel like hackernews has been getting astroturfed by the same people that ruined reddit. Over the past few months, there have been increasingly one sided political stories and comments. It's a shame.
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Government employees have more responsibilities than normal US citizens. If he was hiding someone he was derelict in that responsibility and sending the law after him is completely reasonable.
He wasn't hiding anyone. He was out in a hallway, along with the person he had linked arms with. Watch the video. He was refusing to unlink his arm from the person ICE wanted to detain until ICE presented documentation establishing the legality of what they were doing. It was a perfectly reasonable request.
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Right. So your logic is: because someone, somewhere, once did something illegal while dressed as a police officer , we should interfere with every arrest, everywhere, because they might be fake police? Or are you just restricting this logic to plainclothes officers, who aren't wearing uniforms at all?
The argument being offered is that if the police follow the law, the problem goes away and there’s no impact on legitimate law enforcement activity.
The actual title of the acticle is "Brad Lander Detained by Masked Federal Agents Inside Immigration Court". Contrary to the current title here on HN, Lander was not arrested for asking to see a warrant; TFA states the opposite, "It wasn’t immediately clear what charges, if any, the mayoral candidate will face. A spokesperson for ICE didn’t immediately return a request for comment." If an event is so important to kno…
If we want to stick to the facts: we don't actually have any proof that these were federal agents because they refuse to identify themselves. All we actually know is that Lander was kidnapped.