murder is not a state crime in the sense that a state can choose to legalize murder.
“nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”
What is left to the states is enforcement. A federal ban on abortion does not mean federal police bringing abortionists to federal courts and sending them to federal prisons.
I know that. I also know that the federal government was never intended to be a vehicle to erase state laws that other states disagree with, even if it’s something evil like abortion.
So I take it if a state passed a law banning any form of hate crimes statute, you’d have no problem with the federal government stepping in and stopping them? Conservatives have yet to learn that their love of federal power cuts both ways.
Abortion is evil, but so is the loss of states rights.
Why couldn't it? I don't think that you're correct here--the 14th Amendment prevents a state from depriving a person of due process. I don't see why if a state chose to repeal its laws against murder how it would be denying anyone due process. Do you care to elaborate?