18 U.S. Code § 1111 - Murder: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1111
Usually, double jeopardy would prevent prosecuting for the federal case if the same crime is being prosecuted by the state, but it would apply otherwise, especially if the state renounces to its own jurisdiction. It would also be a civil-rights violation that should get the feds involved (e.g. United States v. Price.)
I’m as libertarian as they come but, no.
Sounds like what’s basically already happening in WV…
Will the state provide roads and access to utilities such as water and electricity? WIll they be able to call the police or fire departments? If there is a disaster will they expect the state to help? If the answer is yest to any of those things then what’s really happening is that the Senator has suggested that the people of his state pay for these corporations needs out of their own pocket.
If you look at what some of the proposals by various cities to Amazon are offering, this isn’t far off.
HOLY SHIT. He doesn’t know how this would work at all. Here is the full text of his proposed bill amendment to the constitution of the state of Nebraska.
Great! When can I open up Bender’s Theme Park (now with both blackjack and hookers)? There is a section of the US Code prohibiting illegal gambling businesses, but Bender’s Theme Park wouldn’t be illegal since it’s not “a violation of the law of a State or political subdivision in which it is conducted”.
Sorry, it’s all “subject to the limitations of the laws and treaties of the United States”, so no can do.
Four Government Powers You Didn’t Know Walt Disney World Could Use:
I want to know if you can appeal their municipal court rulings to US courts.
True, but the mega-rich owners get paid millions of dollars to build stadiums so that they can get richer, so there’s that!
Sounds feasible as long as there’s really stiff tariffs (and immigration control) for importing things from these “sovereign” fiefdoms.
“I’m sorry sir, you may the CEO of that state but if you don’t have a visa, you can’t enter the USA.”.
This has to be one of the most absurd ides I’ve ever heard of and I am a very nasty evil capitalist/Objectivist who thinks less government really is a good idea. But “less government” is not “no government” and I think a corporate government would be hard to tell from a third world dictatorship.
This has worked so well with Native American reservations, what could possibly be bad about it.
Oh wait, could we send Trump into one of these “microstates”? Please? I’ll chip in for his bus fare.
You’ll notice that it isn’t generally player names on the sides of the stadiums.
If it quacks like a duck.
I owe my soul to the company store…
My Own Private Idaho Gitmo
Look things are bad here - but they’re not ‘move to Nebraska’ bad. Currently, the outlook is like choosing between Indianapolis and Milwaukee.
Uhm, from where does Nebraska dreive this authority?
New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union; but no new
State shall be formed or erected within the Jurisdiction of any other
State; nor any State be formed by the Junction of two or more States, or
Parts of States, without the Consent of the Legislatures of the States
concerned as well as of the Congress.
– US Constitution, article IV, section 3
Somehow that just makes the “dozens of baby Waco compounds” comment even more apropos…
