Trump knows Netenyahu..Miller: The point about the supremacy clause, the president has the utmost authority here because he oversees federal law enforcement which is supreme to state and local law enforcement.
— Acyn (@Acyn) August 26, 2025
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Trump declares Netenyahu a hero.
By the associative principle, Trump is a hero, too.
Steven Miller says street gangs sell drugs. (Which street gangs? Does it matter?)
Drug cartels are terrorists (because Miller says so. And because he needs them to be, for the conclusion.)
By the associative principle, street gangs are terrorists.
By the supremacy clause, Trump has supremacy over states to root out terrorists.
There are too many problems with this argument to know where to start. But that’s not what the supremacy clause means, at all. For one thing, Miller’s reading eliminates the 10th Amendment. That’s not allowed. He also obliterates state sovereignty. Even the Sinister Six won’t do that. (A common thread in the Roberts Court’s worst rulings is states rights arguments that would be recognized by the pre-14th Amendment Court.)
And his guilt by association principle is in violation of the most basic principles of criminal law. Which gangs, which persons, are in association with international drug cartels, and how their individual (we don’t criminalize groups, even if Miller the xenophobic racist wants to) actions fit the legal concept of terrorism (yes, there is one), is an issue for the courts, not the POTUS. Trump can’t cry “terrorism” and let slip the dogs of federal supremacy in order to take over whatever parts of the country he chooses. His word, and the definitions of Miller, are not enough. It’s not too much to say, that and $5 will buy you a cup of coffee.
And that’s all it will get you.
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