Judging Freedom - Hey Joe - We Don't Want to Federalize Gun Laws

Episode Date: May 25, 2022

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Newsmax with my friend and former Fox colleague Eric Bolling, and together we watched and then we both commented on President Biden's statements while he was signing or right before he was signing an executive order which purports to regulate how federal law enforcement behaves. The president would love nothing more than to federalize all law enforcement, and the president was bemoaning the non-passage of the George Floyd Policing Act. The George Floyd Policing Act, which was passed by the House of Representatives, but defeated in the Senate, would have done some good things and some bad. The good things that would have done would have made it easier to sue the police when they use excessive force on you. The bad things it would have done would have been to give federal controls over the police. You do not want the police to

be controlled by the feds because New York City is different from Des Moines, Iowa, and Montgomery, Alabama is different from Los Angeles and Dallas and Miami and Nome, Alaska. You don't want uniform standards. The Constitution and the federal courts set a uniform floor below which the police may not go. But in terms of regulating the police, the last thing you want is for this to be controlled by a federal bureaucrat. You want the police department controlled by the local people that you elect to local authority. Where I live in a small town in northwest New Jersey, you want them controlled by the local town council. Even in New York City, you want them controlled by the city council. You do not want them controlled by the federal

government. That's what would have happened in a slow march in that direction had the George Floyd Policing Act passed. The president, upset that the act didn't pass, came up with an executive order which will impose the George Floyd standards on federal law enforcement. Guess what? They're already there. No chokeholds. Well, chokeholds are bad for anybody to use, but the feds don't use them. So signing an executive order banning the feds from doing something that they already don't do is obviously Joe Biden, just for show. And in terms of keeping statistics, all right, the feds spend millions and millions a year keeping their records and statistics. So now they'll keep more records and more statistics when FBI agents use excessive force and they're accused. Look, the president should not be getting involved in local law enforcement and his efforts to intimidate local law enforcement should be resisted. The Senate, by defeating the George Floyd Policing Act, did just that. Judge Napolitano for Judging Freedom.