Ashley Moody says 'dual sovereignty' demands Florida probe Donald Trump attack
Florida’s Attorney General is adamant that the state gets to investigate the latest attempted assassination of Donald Trump.
“Gov. Ron DeSantis and I both were federal prosecutors in our prior lives. We have dual sovereignty with the federal government,” explained Ashley Moody on Friday’s “Fox News at Night.”
The genesis of the dual sovereignty argument may have been in 1922’s United States v. Lanza, a prohibition-era case in which it was established that a state and federal court could each try someone for bootlegging liquor. Though alcohol has long since been legal, the doctrine remains despite challenges heard by SCOTUS in recent years.
Moody contends “dual track investigations” are “very...
