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The Privileges or Immunities Clause says states cannot enforce any law that abridges the rights of U.S. citizenship. In 1873, just five years after the Fourteenth Amendment was adopted, the Supreme Court held in a landmark case called the Slaughterhouse Cases that this clause only extends to the states the rights of federal citizenship and strongly suggested that such rights must be found in the Constitution’s text. The high court thus rejected a claim brought by some Louisiana butchers asking it to strike down a state law regulating the slaughtering of animals around New Orleans.

*buzz* Wrong. What P&I does is that if I do something that is perfectly legal in my State and within the borders of my State, that someone in say... Wisconsin cannot try me in their Courts for it if it is illegal there.

Then federal judges could use the Privileges or Immunities Clause to challenge state and local labor laws, commercial laws, employment laws and business regulations across the country.

Actually, it goes boths ways. State courts could smack down Federal mandates as they exceed the FedGov's Constitutional limits and as those Federal Laws violate what the People of those States might prefer to enact at the State level under the 10th Amendment.

You guys really know how to turn this stuff on it's head.

Absolute nonsense. Where exactly did you get your J.D. from again? Oh yeah... Wait.

LOL! Really Now? Please cite authority for this position. I really would love to see it.

You guys really know how to turn this stuff on it's head.

You really have no clue about Constitutional law. Again, come back and talk to me when you get your J.D.