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The 14th was, originally, intended to “level the playing field” among the States looking to assert their 10th Amendment rights and privileges.

It should have been tied to the Interstate Commerce clause. “The Commerce Clause authorizes Congress to regulate commerce in order to ensure that the flow of interstate commerce is free from local restraints imposed by various states.”

So...COVID rules anyone?
I have to wear a mask in my local Home Depot but...not Home Depot in Texas.
Bueller?

But it seems its been used the opposite, to impose wrong or oppressive laws from one state across the board to all states in the intent to make things consistent. ( ie pushing the so-called “right” for a woman to kill her baby from a state that allows it to other states that still restricted it, pushing homo marriage, etc.). Maybe I'm not understanding it.

I would still prefer the founders’ intention that each state make it's own laws on just about everything except national defense and foreign treaties. And we would still be a bunch of individualistic states with our own characters, rights and ways of doing things, instead of this big grey monolithic leftist superstate they want to make us into, with the states barely having any meaning, sovereignty, or individuality.

And just FYI, many stores in Texas, at least in the cities and suburbs, still push masks and many people still wear their fear muzzles.. It's different as you get further out of the cities and it's slowly changing for the better though. I am thankful its not mandated any more and gradually getting better.

I’m a little hazy on this, so have mercy if the details suk. There is a city in the east (Bristol?) that sits in 2 states. One side of the dividing line had a Covid curfew of let’s say 8:00 pm. The other side of the street had no curfew.
Just shoot me.

When the states started opening up - Nevada seems to come to mind - churches and casinos - the church sued under the 1st amendment for at least the same access as the casinos.

I always thought those lawsuits would have been better served being filed under the 14th amendment