On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 10:05 PM, Philip Shaw <wahspilihp@gmail.com> wrote:
do state legislatures have an equivalent of parliamentary privilege
That's in the first link I sent.
and if so does it protect state legislators from federal law?
Afaik, states / state legislatures are not bound to protect classified fed secrets that just appear on their doorstep, only their own... they're separate entities. But with LEA/FOUO there are lots of data sharing memorandums and general enabling law between state and fed, ie: state driver bureaus, criminal records. geo resources, etc. Unlikely outside of such interagency use that fed top secrets would even make it to the state legislatures... largely irrelevant to their interests unless it's about where to get good Cuban cigars. All afaik, you'd have to research more. Also: FAS secrecy blog, US national archives, foia, etc.