New Jersey’s ban on law enforcement face coverings, intended to prohibit immigration officials from conducting migrant raids anonymously, violates the US Constitution, the Justice Department said in a complaint filed Wednesday.
The law violates the US Supremacy Clause because the state is encroaching upon the federal government’s sole authority to outfit and supervise its officers, said the complaint filed in the US District Court for the District of New Jersey.
“To be clear, the Federal Government will not comply with this blatantly unconstitutional law. But the threat of enforcement by Defendants chills individual officers from protecting themselves and performing their ...
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