There is another effect of the ICE shooting and protests in Minnesota – a potential government shutdown. Some Democratic senators have said they will not vote for a massive government funding package if it includes money for DHS, which oversees immigration enforcement. President Trump’s immigration policies were a key part of the “No Kings” protests – but enforcing a duly enacted law is not a royal prerogative. We discuss the duty to enforce the law with John McGinnis.

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The Duty to Enforce the Law

Guest Info

John O. McGinnis is the George C. Dix Professor in Constitutional Law at Northwestern University and a senior writer at Law & Liberty. He is the author of Accelerating Democracy (2012) and coauthor, with Mike Rappaport, of Originalism and the Good Constitution (2013). He is a graduate of Harvard College; Balliol College, University of Oxford; and Harvard Law School. He has written for leading law reviews, including Harvard, Chicago, and Stanford, as well as The Yale Law Journal, and in journals of opinion, including National Affairs and National Review.

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