What's in the law to actually stop states from breaking the Constitution?
Like DC and open carry that was ruled on, they just ignored the ruling
and reinvented a new law.
“What’s in the law to actually stop states from breaking the Constitution?
Like DC and open carry that was ruled on, they just ignored the ruling
and reinvented a new law.”
That’s the same concern that I have. These local governments just play gotcha with any Constitutional Law with which they disagree, and like you, I am left wondering what recourse there is. I suppose at the end of the day, they could be held in contempt of court, but I’ve never heard of the SCOTUS sending anyone to jail. Then again, the SCOTUS needs a definitive 2A case ( I am hoping Peruta v. San Diego makes it there soon because the majority opinion or the 9th Circuit panel that has heard the case has done a masterful job of laying out what could be the case that forces the SCOTUS to finally rule completely that the 2A is an individual right that isn’t subject to much if any regulation (excepting felons and the mentally ill)). (if you haven’t read it, you should)
Once you have a complete ruling, then it’s enforcement needs to be forceful. It needs to be comprehensive enough that the $hitball RATs can’t diddle it, and if they try, they need to go to jail. If we can’t fix the Second Amendment, what’s next, the First? The RATs would dearly like to limit free speech too.
I’ve never seen anybody arrested for Treason for
ignoring the Constitution, but I would like to!
Well, if we did that we would have to arrest those who did so for violating the constitution and then arrest them, and then arrest them and then...
“Thinking about it, what can the Gov really do to a state who does not comply
with the Constitution while the citizens of said state continue to vote
those people into office? I’ve never seen anybody arrested for Treason for
ignoring the Constitution, but I would like to!”
The president can send in federal troops, like Ike did to force school integration.
Federal judges can appoint a “special master” to administer the law in certain areas, such as happened several times with school busing.
The federal government can pass laws that withhold funding unless the state does what the federal government wants.