Noting that I will vote for Trump if nominated, constitutionally low-informaton Trump is wrong about Planned Parenthood imo.
More specifically, as a consequence of Trump evidently not knowing about the federal governments constitutionally limited powers and associated limited power to appropriate taxes, regardless if Planned Parenthood was the best thing that ever happened for family planning, it remains that the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly the Constitution, the specific power to regulate, tax and spend for anything like Planned Parenthood.
In fact, a previous generation of state sovereignty-respecting justices had clarified in broad terms that Congress is prohibited from appropriating taxes in the name of state power issues, essentially any issue that Congess cannot justify with its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers, vote-winning funding for anything like planned parenthood not among those powers.
”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.
Trump supporters need to get him up to speed on the federal governments constitutitonal limited powers, intluding its limited power to appropriate taxes.
Remember in November !
When patriots elect Trump, Cruz, or whatever conservative they elect, they need to also elect a new, state sovereignty-respecting Congress that will not only work within its Section 8-limited powers to support the new president, but also protect the states from unconstitutional federal government overreach.
Also, consider that such a Congress would probably be willing to fire state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices.
An excellent point and you have a most fitting screen name for that post!