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To: aimhigh

A federal court finds a situation where state law should not be trumped by federal law? Wonders never cease, but since it involved pot, this probably isn’t anything to get excited about.


4 posted on 08/16/2016 8:41:31 PM PDT by Will88
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To: Will88
A federal court finds a situation where state law should not be trumped by federal law?

I think the court is saying the Executive branch is violating a law passed by Congress, ie the Rohrbacher Amendment.

6 posted on 08/16/2016 8:56:11 PM PDT by Ken H (Best election ever!)
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To: Will88

“A federal court finds a situation where state law should not be trumped by federal law? “

Actually, it isn’t that good a decision. Wish it were. The Court enforced an existing federal law barring Obama from spending money to prosecute medical MJ cases. So the court was just enforcing a federal law. Not vindicating states rights.

It would have been a better decision had it been based on the commerce clause. But the Supreme Court ruled against that approach a while back (one of Justice Thomas’s few bad decisions).


13 posted on 08/16/2016 9:47:34 PM PDT by ModelBreaker
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If that precedent sticks, that camels nose under the tent works a hell of a lot better for us than the enemy!


15 posted on 08/16/2016 10:29:23 PM PDT by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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To: Will88
A federal court finds a situation where state law should not be trumped by federal law? Wonders never cease, but since it involved pot, this probably isn’t anything to get excited about.


19 posted on 08/17/2016 12:40:11 AM PDT by gunsequalfreedom
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Actually they are compelling enforcement of a Federal law prohibiting the Feds from interfering with the state laws.

I wish it was a 10th Amendment ruling, but it is not.

25 posted on 08/17/2016 5:54:27 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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