Thanks for providing the legal research showing how the states are getting around the federal law. It gives a good illustration of how the courts and legal establishment as currently constituted will subvert and undermine the intent of almost any statute they choose.
I actually don’t mind this ruling, because as the court noted, if the elected representatives want, they can easily change the law to change what the court ruled.
The problem is when the courts tell us that our elected representatives can’t be trusted to do the right thing, so they will do it for them.