[Sandy]

where was Congress?

Try here, for one.

[robertpaulsen]

If I understood your previous link correctly, all Congress has to do was pass a law saying that all states cannot infringe speech.

Badda bing, badda boom, law of the land.

They didn't. I'm questioning why not. I asking, where was Congress?

Since they didn't, I'm wondering just how correct the speaker was in your cite.

[Dead Corpse]

In the next place, the state governments are, by the very theory of the constitution, essential constituent parts of the general government. They can exist without the latter, but the latter cannot exist without them.
Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution, 1833