With all due respect to Sen. Schumer, low-information, state sovereignty-ignoring Schumer is an excellent example why the ill-conceived 17th Amendment should never have been ratified.
“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.
The 17th Amendment needs to disappear, and the 16th Amendment along with it.
If patriots do not work with Trump to make Congress surrender state powers that the corrupt feds have stolen from the states back to the states, then consider the following.
It is only a matter of time before we have another lawless president like Obama that works in cahoots with corrupt Congress to use those stolen state power to oppress the states and the people.
Only the failures from Harvard law school are destined to practice law. The great successes move on to other realms, Senators, judges, legal scholars, where they are free to invent alternative systems of law, unconstrained by the US constitution and the common law context that give it meaning, and the citizens justice.