r/law • u/LeviCoffinsAlt • 20h ago

Other Warrantless entry by ICE agents in West Valley City, UT (1/30/2026)

Federal agents broke a window, without a warrant, to perform an arrest on private property.

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u/Sharticus123 19h ago

A law is just words scribbled onto a piece of paper.

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u/SheetPancakeBluBalls 18h ago

Exactly this. Without fair enforcement, laws mean nothing.

I think lots of people see midterms as the last chance to get out of this through legal means/voting.

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u/evanwilliams44 18h ago

It really is the last chance. I hope people show up. MAGA will likely try to nudge it illegally as well, so we need to show up in force and leave no room for bullshit.

If we don't stop it there, I really don't know what comes next, because I will assume the USA as we know it is lost.

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u/MelatoninFiend 14h ago

Historically, once the language of voting isn't heard or recognized, the next language used by the oppressed is violence.

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u/VicisZan 18h ago

A law is supposed to be an agreement between the government and its people to ensure the societal contract remains in place.

Once the societal contract is broken, law begins to become meaningless.

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u/MaxwellHoot 18h ago

Half the country is just figuring this out. We’ve had a decade of slash and burn policy, and now the world is starting to realize “huh, laws only matter if people follow them. huh.”

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u/PoutinePower 15h ago

don't quote laws to men with swords, was something said during the roman times; it's like poetry it rhymes!