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Re:Coalfire Comments on Penetration Tests for Iowa Judicial ... by bsder on Thursday September 19, 2019 @07:36PM (#21021816)
> State government agencies can only override county governments when there is specific state law allowing them to do so.

I think that's only true for a few old states with some oddities dating back to grants from The Crown.

For everybody else, I'm pretty sure the local government is mostly at the whim of the state government.

Now most states don't do that because it screws things up badly. However, there have been some high profile cases in Texas, for example, where a state judge comes with the Rangers, displaces the local judge and starts arresting everybody.

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Re:Coalfire Comments on Penetration Tests for Iowa Judicial ... by nradov on Thursday September 19, 2019 @07:51PM (#21021931)
That is an entirely different and irrelevant example. The Rangers are specifically authorised to arrest people throughout Texas under state law. However they generally cannot issue a legally valid order preventing a county sheriff from arresting a suspect.
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