By Asher Notheis | Washington Examiner
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) warned that Denver Mayor Mike Johnston could face legal repercussions over his opposition to President-elect Donald Trump‘s proposed mass deportations of illegal immigrants.
Johnston is one of several mayors who have stated they will not assist the incoming Trump administration with its deportation plan, stating that Denver would “continue to be a welcoming, open, big-hearted city.” Paul, who has expressed criticism of Trump’s plan to use the Army to carry out his deportation plan, warned the mayor that his resistance could be taken to the Supreme Court, where he could potentially be removed from office.
“I don’t know whether or not there would be a criminal prosecution for someone resisting federal law, but he will lose, and people need to realize that what he is offering is a form of insurrection where the states resist the federal government,” Paul said on CBS News’s Face the Nation. “Most people objected to that and rejected that long ago. So I think the mayor of Denver is on the wrong side of history, and really, I think, will face legal ramifications if he doesn’t obey the federal law.”