Posted on 01/08/2019 3:39:19 PM PST by Jim Robinson
“Sanctuary don’t have to bake the homosexual cake law, etc.”
Western states were required to have perfect religious tolerance as a condition of statehood.
Perfect means providing no motivation to walk to a courthouse door.
The small town of Republic Washington declared itself to be a sanctuary for the Second Amendment.
In the late 1850s, Democrats were very upset with Northern States for not enforcing the Fugitive Slave Act. They begged the Buchanan Administration to enforce the Fugitive Slave Act, at the point of U.S. Army bayonets, if need be.
Now they are saying that States can pick and choose which Federal Laws they will obey?
In regard to immigration law state & cities have been practicing nullification for some time.
“states or individual rights”
States have powers.
Individuals have rights.
We have a mess now because states like California ignore our constitution and laws--the 2nd amendment as one example means something quite different when I, a US citizen, drive five miles from my home in Nevada to California. Not that many years ago Arizona lost a series of lawsuits when they tried to establish and enforce a series of laws to limit immigration. Now, though, we have states, again California is a great example, that openly defy federal law regarding immigration.
It is time that we get a serious reset and apply our federal laws and constitution equally across the US, allowing no state to openly defy or infringe upon them and, by extension, all of us citizens.
Hi guy.
The Ninth and Tenth amendments are as good as the Second amendment, only if enforced by the people.
5.56mm
The Dems hate this country so much, they will eventually call this nation “The States”.
All this division of Americans by political ideology carried forward to what is fast appearing the final conclusion will be, imho, the division of America into Regional Republics.
Being at an advanced age I might not see this happen, but it sure seems to be headed in that direction.
Isn't it fun to watch Jerry Brown and Gavin Newson channel John Calhoun?
It was a bad thing in 1860
It’s already happened on the state government level. CA,CT,HI, IL,MA,MD,MJ,NY,OR,RI,VA,VT and WA governments make up what I call, NWO America. They have declared war on everything that the US has stood for, and side with the UN and EU.
“Is there any federal law that states MUST enforce even if they don’t like it?”
Amendment XIV “equal protection” items.
“Section 5.
“The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.”
There’s also the necessary and proper clause of Article I, Section 8. States might have to fork over income tax data.
Or ban abortion. That will drive the Dems mad.
I’m just waiting for the first locality to announce a Second Amendment sanctuary where nfa ‘34 AND gca ‘68 do not apply.
I’m there.
I like how you think!!!
no
Better yet; a state that is a 'sanctuary state' from federal taxation. Since the dems have established that states get to pick and choose which federal laws we need to obey, I don't see why this should be a problem.
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