Supremacy Clause Reigns Supreme
Handel On The Law
KFI AM 640
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🗓️ 25 April 2026
⏱️ 37 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to KFI AM 640, the Bill Handel show On Demand, on the Iheart Radio app. |
| 0:08.9 | KFI AM 640, Bill Handel here, hour number two, the legal show, phone number 800520-1534, and you'll get in pretty quickly because we have some lines open and it's also the top of the hour |
| 0:23.9 | 800 520 1534 all right here's what happened in california oh how unusual california |
| 0:32.6 | this is a law that would force immigration agents and law enforcement officers to display ID while on duty and can't wear face masks. |
| 0:46.4 | Okay. |
| 0:47.3 | Now, considering this is California, what a shocker. |
| 0:50.2 | And this is in direct response to ICE agents, and you've seen them as they enforce immigration laws. |
| 0:56.7 | You can see them wear masks. Very few of them, you can see their faces. |
| 1:00.8 | So California passes this law. Says, no, you can't do it. |
| 1:04.4 | Well, here's the problem. Those ICE agents are federal agents. |
| 1:09.4 | Now, they can go all day with California police officers and a California |
| 1:14.5 | Highway Patrol and local police departments. But this is the feds. And what the court said is, |
| 1:21.4 | I don't know what you think the supremacy clause does, but federal law trumps anything on the state level. And unless federal law says |
| 1:33.0 | it, ICE can do whatever the hell it wants, unless it's, of course, unconstitutional. Well, there's |
| 1:38.2 | nothing constitutional about whether you do or not wear face masks. And there's a reason for it. |
| 1:43.7 | Because if something is wrong, who do you go after? |
| 1:47.2 | If there is a wrongdoing by a federal agent, there should be able to know who it is. But the bottom |
| 1:53.2 | line is, a state cannot pass a law that involves a federal agent or federal agency. You can't do it. And so the Ninth Circuit |
| 2:04.9 | Court of Appeals slapped down the law. That's it. Because it said it a ruling, the measure |
| 2:11.2 | attempts to directly regulate the federal government. And that's exactly what is, it attempts to do. No, thank you. Supremacy law of, uh, |
| 2:21.7 | the people of the state of or people of the United States and its constitution. All right, |
| 2:28.8 | let's go ahead and take, uh, some, uh, phone calls. Uh, here's a question, uh, that I haven't answered in a long time. Hello, Brad. |
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