Kansas Senate may vote to condemn Obama transgender decree

Associated Press ^ | Jun 1, 2016 7:16 AM EDT | Melissa Hellmann

[Olog-hai]

The Kansas Senate is considering a resolution condemning a recent Obama administration decree that public schools allow transgender students to use the restrooms that match their gender identity, not their sex at birth.

The nonbinding resolution comes less than a week after the state Supreme Court ruled that legislators failed to equitably fund the school’s 286 public school districts. […]

Senate Majority Leader Terry Bruce, a Hutchinson Republican, said President Barack Obama “overstepped his bounds” by issuing a decree on what should be a state-level decision. …

[relictele]

Ignoring Obama is what angers him most. It’s also the most effective and takes the least effort.

Let him stamp his widdle foot. His ‘decrees’ mean nothing legally.

[Lionheartusa1]

,,,,, what took so long ,,,, wake up republican governors this is not about equal rights .

[Zathras]

Its not a law.
You don’t have to obey an “Executive Suggestion”

[Soul of the South]

State legislatures should respond to each unconstitutional presidential edict by passing a resolution stating something to the effect, “Executive Order XYZ is invalid in that it does not pertain to an enumerated power in the Constitution and it violates Amendment X. If citizens perceive additional powers should be granted to the federal courts, the Constitution provides an amendment process through which such powers may be granted. They cannot simply be taken by decree.”

If a federal judge or court rules the action of the state legislature is invalid, the legislature should pass another resolution. “The ruling by Judge XYZ or Federal Court ABC is not consistent with the wording and understanding of the Constitution at the time it was drafted and is therefore invalid. The state of ABC chooses to ignore this unconstitutional ruling by the court. Nothing in the Constitution grants federal courts supremacy over the states. In fact the Constitution is clear that all powers not expressly granted to the federal government are reserved to the states and the people.”

Since the Marbury v Madison ruling in 1803, the Supreme Court and federal courts have issued decrees taking powers they are not granted by the Constitution. It is long past time for the states to push back firmly, even if doing so creates a Constitutional crisis or another Civil War.

If tyranny isn’t opposed, it will reign.

[Twinkie]

The very idea of a 6’4” fake female with a day’s growth of
black beard in 5” heels & all that bopping out of a
restroom stall right beside the one I just exited gives me
pause . . . pause to wonder why in the hellfire & damnation
ANYONE would actually want to wear tight brassieres & tight
girdles together with 5 or 6” high heels & an inch of caked
on makeup??!! In the SUMMER to boot!!