Highest Law Enforcement Priority

[Bob Orts]

James, do you understand the concept of superior standing? By that I mean a Constitutional statement of superior authority over local rule? If not, it simply goes like this: a constitutional statement that a power is granted to a lesser authority so long as that power does not provide a superior authority over the granted rights of citizens and their constitutional protection. So, if the people of a given local are secure in a right, no local decision can supersede that ultimate right and lessen the constitutional protection provided.

(FYI, remember last May when Ashida raised a cautionary note about the legal ability of the government to mandate priorities of the PD)