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I’m not going to say that a blank look response is predictable (sarc), but somebody please challenge Senate President Pro Tem Kevin De Leon's knowledge of the fed’s constitutionally limited powers and let us know how he reacts.

First, ask De Leon why the Founding States made the Constitution’s Section 8 of Article I; to limit (cripple) the federal government’s powers.

Next, make sure that he is knowledgeable of the Supreme Court's clarifications of the federal government’s limited powers listed here.

“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
"State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress [emphases added]." —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”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 [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.

Also, ask De Leon if he will commit to supporting federal laws to prosecute state officials who make laws and policies which abridge constitutionally enumerated rights, 1st Amendment-protected religious expression and free speech for example, such actions prohibited by Section 1 of the 14th Amendment.

”14th Amendment, Section 1: All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States [emphasis added]; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”

Finally, ask him if he would support the states amending the Constitution to repeal the ill-conceived 17th Amendment.