Posted on 10/23/2019 3:01:23 PM PDT by ransomnote
The United States today filed a civil complaint against the state of California, several of its officers, the California Air Resources Board, and the Western Climate Initiative Inc., for unlawfully entering a cap and trade agreement with the Canadian Province of Quebec.
“The state of California has veered outside of its proper constitutional lane to enter into an international emissions agreement. The power to enter into such agreements is reserved to the federal government, which must be able to speak with one voice in the area of U.S. foreign policy,” said Assistant Attorney General Jeffrey Bossert Clark of the Justice Department’s Environment and Natural Resources Division. “California’s unlawful cap-and-trade agreement with Quebec undermines the President’s ability to negotiate competitive agreements with other nations, as the President sees fit.”
The Supreme Court has recognized that the interests of cities, counties and states, and the American people as a whole, requires the federal power in foreign relations to be reposed exclusively in the federal government, keeping it free from local interference.
According to the complaint, filed today in the Eastern District of California, the defendants have pursued or are attempting to pursue an independent foreign policy in the area of greenhouse gas regulation. The Constitution prohibits states from making treaties or compacts with foreign powers, yet California entered into a complex, integrated cap-and-trade program with the Canadian province of Quebec in 2013 without congressional approval.
California’s agreement with Quebec, which the Western Climate Initiative facilitates (and where the Western Climate Initiative’s board is run by California and Quebec governmental actors), interferes with the proper execution of these federal responsibilities. Accordingly, today’s complaint asks the court to uphold the exclusive role of the federal government in conducting our foreign policy by declaring the agreement — and related statutes and regulations —unconstitutional, and enjoining their operation.
Is Quebec a separate nation?
“Is Quebec a separate nation?”
Go there, or talk to someone from there, and you’ll find the answer is YES, as far as they’re concerned. And the federal government in Ottawa is scared crapless to stand up to them.
Canada - yes. Quebec should be a province of Canada. :)
No state shall enter into any treaty, alliance, or confederation; grant letters of marque and reprisal; coin money; emit bills of credit; make any thing but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts; pass any bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law impairing the obligation of contracts, or grant any title of nobility.Not just unlawful, but un-Constitutional.
— Article 1, Section 10, Clause 1 of US Constitution
“Is Quebec a separate nation?”
A lot of MtT5’s family still live in Quebec-we visited them several times-from speaking Quebecois French more than English to the disconnect everyone seemed to have with the rest of Canada, I’m sure they believe they are a separate nation-just like California thinks it is one, too-I’ll be interested to see if Quebec gets smacked with a lawsuit for this idiocy like Cali did......
California has also entered into illegal treaties with Red China.
Illegal China treaties:
More illegal China-California ties.
Former Governor Jerry Brown is now acting as an agent of Red China.
California has also entered into illegal treaties with Red China.
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I think California has tried it’s best to become a listening post for China, what with Sen Feinstein’s Chinese driver being exposed and all. :(
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Meaningless words in the 9th Circuit.
If Trump remakes that court, that would be a thing of the past. At least the Supreme Court has been making the Ninth Circus’ activism of no effect of late.
I had sort of hoped to see AG William Barr's name, or
Solicitor General of the United States, Noel Francisco.
At any rate, I am happy to see Fornicalia's unconstitutional horrors challenged. The Constitution barely lives on the west coast anymore. :^(
Isn’t it de facto from AG? He must have approved this action at the very least.
I was just stating a wish.
Ah, sometimes hard to read nuances.
Do you have a positive impression so far of this AG?
Mostly. I have to; I believe he is about the only person that can save our Republic - legally - right now. I posted some time ago that if he does not hurry up with his investigations the DS / Dems would seize power and remove him - the end of our Republic
Understood. I spent hours reading the Flynn case Motion and now think he and Powell are revealing what happened in spite of the gov. effort to stop them. Credit also given to Judge .
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