rittenhouse should’ve been federal… but he (supposedly) crossed state lines to enforce the law and ended up murdering someone….
i think he hoped to murder someone but still, it’s different and pretty clearly a federal case.
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they definitely selectively enforce it, like when some anarchists drove from portland to Seattle in order to spray paint a courthouse during a protest: that became federal charges because they anarchists, mostly….
i was honestly surprised when states were charging luigi instead of the feds at first
too much money but, mozilla does a lot more that firefox… (see also: rust