He sounds like a chooch!!
He’s right. It is a state issue.
He looks like an ultra-Type A (A as in...) personality.
No, the Feds believe that the people of the states are so stoopid that they cannot police themselves. Bob
The issue is not a matter of opinion imo. The Founding States made the 10th Amendment to clarify that he Constitution's silence about issues, cockfighting in this case, means that such issues are automatically uniquely state power issues. If the citizens of Kentucky don't like the idea of cockfighting then they can outlaw it locally or deal with their state lawmakers to make it illegal statewide.
As the Herald-Leader reported in February, McConnell enraged cockfighting enthusiasts when he voted earlier this year in favor of farm legislation (emphasis added) that contained an amendment making it a federal crime to be a spectator at an animal fight.
Although I don't regard animal fighting as agricultural production, McConnell should know from the Constitution that the states have never delegated to Congress the specific power to regulate agriculture, or cockfighting for that matter. In fact, regardless what FDR's activist justices wanted everybody to believe about the scope of Congress's Commerce Clause powers in Wickard v. Filburn, these justices wrongly ignored that the Court had previously clarified in United States v. Butler that Congress has no delegated powers to regulate intrastate agriculture.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited. None to regulate agricultural production is given, and therefore legislation by Congress for that purpose is forbidden (emphasis added).” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
So why is McConnell helping to foster constitutionally indefensible federal farm legislation? Can anybody provide a link which shows that McConnell has proposed an amendment to the Constitution to the states which would grant Congress the specific power to regulate agricultural production if the states choose to ratify it?