CALIFORNIA HAS BECOME A DRAG ON INTERSTATE COMMERCE.

National Review's Andrew McCarthy notes that people in other states are now burdened by the law enforcement follies of Los Angeles prosecutors.

The train ambushes are just one part of the epidemic of robberies and retail organized crime plaguing California — not just in Los Angeles, but in San Francisco, and other commercial hubs.

Obviously, [Los Angeles county district attorney George] Gascón and, in general, California’s state government are disastrous. But what is the federal government doing about this? In many crime situations, the feds can seem superfluous, muscling in on matters that are chiefly local concerns. Here, however, we are talking about interstate and international commerce, the very foundation of federal criminal jurisdiction.

It's possible, as he goes on to note, that the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Transportation Security are working the problem, although when that blinking twerp who is playing Attorney General in the ficus's cabinet seems more interested in calling parents "domestic terrorists" I'm not optimistic.  But it's our corona tests and our epi pens and for all I know our exercise bicycles being delayed or going missing by the looting of containers.

The people of Los Angeles elected Gascón, so it is fair enough to observe that they are getting the kind of law “enforcement” they voted for. But the train robberies are a national problem that has ramifications throughout the economy — and the country is now having them at a time of rising inflation and empty store shelves. It is for such challenges that we have federal law enforcement. The feds do not need state or municipal permission to act — they can move on their own initiative, and in contravention of the woke prosecutors’ nonenforcement approach.

The Biden administration owes the public an explanation of what it is doing to end this dangerous and embarrassing siege.

The ficus isn't sentient enough to do that, and the blinking twerp will make a hash of it.