By David Tulis We like to think Tennessee as an independent state partly co-opted by the federal government to serve its policies and enforce its law. Only partly, we like to think. A glimpse at a state law hiding like an adder in the weeds might disabuse us of this forebearing and patriotic attitude some of us continue to hold for our state. The law looks to a time of crisis in which the national interest is so great that the government in Washington takes over an entire agency of the state executive branch. The law went into effect in … Continue reading State law lets U.S. hijack state police if ‘terror‘ specter