Federal threats against local officials who don’t cooperate with immigration orders could be unconstitutional − Justice Antonin Scalia ruled against similar plans
- Written by Claire B. Wofford, Associate Professor of Political Science, College of Charleston
A fundamental tension exists between state and federal power in the United States that has not been resolved.Vladstudioraw via iStock/Getty Images PlusPresident Donald Trump has begun to radically change how the U.S. government handles immigration, from challenging long-held legal concepts about who gets citizenship to using the military to...