‘This bill allowed paperwork LEGALLY NOTARIZED (lawfully notarized) in one state to be used in courts in another state.”
Expanding federal powers is not a conservative cause.
It would eliminate the value of notarized documents since its virtually impossible to know whether the documents are notarized properly if it wasn’t done in your state.
You have to be able to have a point at which you can accept things as valid unless there is evidence to the contrary. If you can’t accept out of state notarizations as valid simply because they are out of state, where does that leave interstate commerce?
Every state has its own particular requirements for notaries and notarization, but that doesn’t make them illegal or illegitimate or fraudulent.
Cases of fraud must be investigated individually and an out of state notarization is no evidence of fraud in itself.
The federal government is clearly given the power to regulate interstate commerce. The filing of paperwork in regards to an interstate mortgage transaction is clearly an act of interstate commerce.
So this does not “expand federal powers”. And there is no hard-and-fast rule that says “laws are against the conservative cause”. It could well be a conservative cause to protect the rights of a business to efficiently do their paperwork within the state they are headquartered, rather than a state forcing them to send people to the state to do the paperwork.