(03-22-2020, 02:36 PM)mikesez Wrote:

(03-22-2020, 02:25 PM)jagibelieve Wrote: Regarding the part in bold.  Is it?  Who determines that and/or where is it written in our laws?

You flip and flop more than the fish that I caught today.

congratulations on catching the fish. I haven't gotten a chance to do that in a while.
I don't think I'm flip-flopping here, but I probably am not communicating well, and you are probably coming at each of my statements with some sort of presumption that I don't share.
To answer your question, no this is not written in our laws. It would be up to the president or the chief of staff to decide. But the principle that national defense is more important than criminal justice applies generally. A hypothetical scenario:
If there is a foreign army rolling tanks a few blocks away, I'm going to have a hard time caring whether the guy down the street gets punished for murdering his wife. Maybe we could run a murder trial in those circumstances, but it certainly would not be a priority. Don't you agree?

Nope.  In your hypothetical case one is a national security scenario while the other is a state felony.

There is no right or duty in our Constitution that supersedes or "takes priority" over another.  In the case of the state felony of murder the accused is still afforded his/her constitutional rights.  Constitutional rights are just that and can not be taken away at any level of government.  The Sixth Amendment applies whether it's at the local, state or national levels of government.

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