Public policy has blatantly ignored 10th Amendment-protected state sovereignty for the last 100+ years.
“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.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
I think it would have been better if, instead of Pittsburg, he said he represented Paris Texas and many of the numerous communities in the US that are named “Paris”, there’s a lot of them in many states.