MEGYN KELLY (HOST): As much as I’d love to see that, Mike, does he have the legal authority to go beyond D.C.?
MIKE DAVIS (PRESIDENT, THE ARTICLE III PROJECT): He has more constitutional power, more constitutional duty under Article 2 to execute the laws of D.C. because it’s our nation’s capital. It’s a federal enclave, and any statute like the D.C. Home Rule Act of 1973 that tries to strip — that purports to strip the president of his executive power to enforce our laws in D.C. — is unconstitutional. He can enforce federal laws in other jurisdictions, sovereign jurisdictions across the country and states and local governments. For example, the sovereign state of Illinois and then the local jurisdiction of Chicago. He has less power there than he does in Washington, D.C., but there are still federal laws that the the Justice Department can use to prosecute crimes in those cities. He can also use the civil rights laws to take over police departments if he has to, if they are not enforcing the laws in a way that stops racial discrimination.
KELLY: There it is. Honestly, you could make that case right now for Chicago. We saw Eric Holder’s DOJ taking over police department after police department, and Joe Biden’s DOJ did the same, trying to say that they were racist cops and that the feds had to run these departments now. Well, what — how is it not racist that, you know, the mayor of Chicago, who is a Black man but seems totally fine watching Blacks and Hispanics kill each other at disproportionate rates while the whites who live on Michigan Avenue are totally fine? I mean, why hasn’t somebody gone there and said, you know what? We’re taking over. Chicago, the South Side of Chicago needs martial law for God’s sake. I have spent time there. I have met with the moms, half of whom who live in this area have a son who’s been killed or a son who’s in jail, not to mention their brothers and their husbands. So, like, honestly, if the races were reversed, this already would have happened, Mike.
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