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California Invented a Crime Called Insufficient Lanyard Compliance

California passed a law that would let the state criminally prosecute federal agents for not wearing name tags. Let that sink in. Not for excessive force. Not for civil rights violations. For insufficient lanyard compliance. The Ninth Circuit - a court that conservatives have treated like a piñata for decades - unanimously told Sacramento this was unconstitutional. When the Ninth Circuit is the one slapping down your progressive enforcement law, you've managed to find the one legal argument that unites the entire federal bench in secondhand embarrassment.

The Supremacy Clause Is Old Enough to Vote, Drive, and Collect a Pension

The constitutional logic here isn't even close. McCulloch v. Maryland settled this in 1819 - states don't get to regulate federal operations. That's not a controversial opinion; it's a legal principle older than photography. California essentially tried to ID-check the federal government and then threatened jail time for noncompliance. It's the legislative equivalent of a mall cop writing a parking ticket for an ambulance.

When Your Resistance Strategy Has a 0-2 Record in Federal Court

What makes this genuinely absurd isn't the policy impulse - wanting accountability for federal agents operating in your state is a defensible position. It's that California's legislature apparently skipped the part of law school where they explain the Supremacy Clause, passed it anyway, watched it get struck down, and had already passed a second unconstitutional law restricting what agents can wear on their faces. Per the Fox News report, Newsom compared ICE agents to "secret police" of an authoritarian state while his own government was attempting to criminally prosecute federal officers for dress code violations. That's not resistance. That's a HOA board trying to fine the National Guard for parking on the grass.