Posted on 01/04/2018 12:26:52 PM PST by Magnatron
WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Jeff Sessions has rescinded an Obama-era policy that paved the way for legalized marijuana to flourish in states across the country, creating new confusion about enforcement and use just three days after a new legalization law went into effect in California.
President Donald Trump’s top law enforcement official announced the change Thursday. Instead of the previous lenient-federal-enforcement policy, Sessions’ new stance will instead let federal prosecutors where marijuana is legal decide how aggressively to enforce longstanding federal law prohibiting it.
Sessions’ plan drew immediate strong objection from Republican Sen. Cory Gardner of Colorado, one of eight states that have legalized marijuana for recreational use.
Gardner said in a tweet that the Justice Department “has trampled on the will of the voters” in Colorado and other states. He said the action would contradict what Sessions had told him before the attorney general was confirmed and that he was prepared “to take all steps necessary” to fight the step including holding up the confirmation of Justice Department nominees.
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The Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution (Article VI, Clause 2) establishes that the Constitution, federal laws made pursuant to it, and treaties made under its authority, constitute the supreme law of the land.
Federal powers are not unlimited. The supremacy clause only applies to the enumerated powers.
Nice opinion, not based in fact or law though. Implied as well are included if you actually read the many case law decisions in this space going back two centuries.
“My view is pretty simple if the state says yes, then the 10th amendment says the feds stay out.”
Cool, when you become Dictator for Life you can make that the Law of the Land. Until then it is just a blowhard’s opinion.
By your comment is certain you have not read all those cases.
Yawn.
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