A.G. Gancarski
Florida’s Attorney General is adamant that the state gets to investigate the latest attempted assassination of Donald Trump.
“Gov. Ron DeSantis and I both were federal prosecutors in our prior lives. We have dual sovereignty with the federal government,” explained Ashley Moody on Friday’s “Fox News at Night.”
The genesis of the dual sovereignty argument may have been in 1922’s United States v. Lanza, a prohibition-era case in which it was established that a state and federal court could each try someone for bootlegging liquor. Though alcohol has long since been legal, the doctrine remains despite challenges heard by SCOTUS in recent years.
Moody contends “dual track investigations” are “very common.”
“And you would think that the federal agencies that are prosecuting Donald Trump right now and investigating him would want to mitigate public concern and have the state of Florida come in and work alongside them to assure the credibility and transparency of this process. It’s fundamental that people have faith in the system and we’re here to do that,” the AG said.
Florida’s top cop had previously fretted the feds would “stymy” the state probe into how Ryan Roush got onto the grounds of the golf club and waited for hours for his opportunity to take a shot at Trump.
Gov. Ron DeSantis has also chided the feds for not being “cooperative,” saying state efforts to investigate have not gotten a “lot of receptive response.”
Moody also cast doubt at “unbelievable” security failings by the Secret Service during the same interview Friday.
“And the real question is after that happened two months ago: How in the world was it able to get to a point where someone could lie in, wait along the president’s expected presidential route, get within a few hundred yards, a short distance from a major presidential candidate?”
11 comments
Ocean Joe
September 21, 2024 at 11:43 am
Jan 6 was the worst thing they’ve done, but destroying the public trust in the federal government from intelligence (trust the Russians), to law enforcement (label any prosecution of Republicans weaponization), to nonsense about voting irregularities (despite 60 failed lawsuits and Fox agreeing to pay $796 million to Dominion for pushing falsehoods), comes in second. You want to undermine government, you remove the trust. And you do all this because one conman tells you to.
My guess is that they’d like to find a Democrat to blame for a change instead of all these disgruntled Republicans with their assault rifles. Maybe if the guy would quit slurring everybody things would cool off.
Billy Rotberg
September 24, 2024 at 11:37 am
Worse than 9-11 and Pearl Harbor…
Bob Anderson
September 21, 2024 at 11:52 am
The key question of the American system: is the federal government superior to the state government? If it is, what is the point of statehood? If there is no point to statehood, why doesn’t the federal government simply say we are going to impose our will on them? The answer to that question is simple, and it can be found at Fort Sumter in April 1861 when Lincoln, in full knowledge that South Carolina considered the fort to be its property and that an attempt to resupply it would initiate a war, attempted to resupply it any way.
Michael
September 21, 2024 at 12:46 pm
Bob, I would retrieve your 8th grade Civics textbook out of the attic and find the phrase “Supremacy Clause” in the glossary.
Yes, there is ‘dual sovereignty’ as Moody states when there are both federal and state law violations and you can have ‘concurrent investigations/prosecutions’ in these same circumstances, but ultimately Article VI, Paragraph 2 rules if there is a pissing match such as this.
Shownoats
September 21, 2024 at 12:25 pm
The free State of Florida wants the Federal Government on their terms. They want money when there is a hurricanes but they want to tell them to stay away for everything else. They want to interfere with the citizens and jeopardize public safety disagreeing with the CDC and allow Floridians to die with COVID. They want the spotlight whenever they think it will politically benefit the MAGA way. Showboating is all this is
Frankie M.
September 21, 2024 at 4:46 pm
Keep banging that states rights drum. See how far that gets you
Billy Rotberg
September 24, 2024 at 11:38 am
Works fine when it comes to weed.
wake
September 22, 2024 at 7:21 am
Why didn’t the orange turd protect himself on his own darn golf course and take responsibility for poor security? GOP always looking to have government take care of everything and nobody wants individual freedoms about their own personal affairs
Old news
September 22, 2024 at 9:47 am
That was then this is now and the faces are changing and it’s not for them it will be tomorrow
Tom Reynolds
September 22, 2024 at 11:52 am
Ok Moody …. but remember … the FDLE has NO credibility after Not charging DeSantis and Rick Scott for destroying Public Records!
Frankie M.
September 22, 2024 at 1:22 pm
Why do they bang the states rights drum when it suits them while taking away local rule from county & municipal governments? Is it the same way vegans love to talk about how they are vegan or CrossFitters feel the need to tell everyone about how they do CrossFit?