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AFAIK it's standard terms and conditions whenever US has a military presence in another country, and we believe that presence is beneficial in deterring Russia - above and beyond NATO article 5.
I have no opinion myself beyond having read in the internal debate both "US soldiers are above Swedish law" and "Of course Swedish law applies to them" ...
We had US troops doing rotations in Norway long before we made a deal allowing US jurisdiction on certain bases.
It's quite (very) common to give some degree of immunity to visiting allied soldiers. Often, this involves that they will be tried by courts in their home country if they are accused of a crime.
These new deals are a whole different matter. They give full jurisdiction to the US inside their bases. The major argument against them is essentially that they undermine Norwegian sovereignty on Norwegian soil. For example, we have laws prohibiting storage of nuclear weapons on our soil, but if the US lands a plane carrying nukes on one of these bases, we have signed away our right to inspect them. Even if we knew they carried nukes, we've signed away our right to seize them and send them out.
My personal opinion is that these deals are a major infraction on Norwegian sovereignty, and are possibly unconstitutional for that reason.
Well both are kind of true. They must follow local laws, but if they don't, it has to be enforced and prosecuted by the Americans themselves.