The corrupt, post-17th Amendment ratification Congress left over from the lawless Obama Administration has a track record of refusing to exercise its 14th Amendment power to make punitive laws to discourage state actors from abridging constitutionally enumerated protections.
"14th Amendment, Section 1: All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States [emphasis added]; 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.”
"14th Amendment, Section 5: The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article."
The clear remedy for this situation is the following.
Patriots in all states need to rescue California citizens from their misguided, activist state leaders by doing this. Patriots now need to be making sure that there are plenty of Trump-supporting patriot candidates on the 2018 primary ballots who will commit to making punitive laws to deal with state actors who abridge constitutionally enumerated protections.
Patriots then need to pink-slip career lawmakers by sending patriot candidate lawmakers to DC on election day so that they can start making laws to protect constitutionally enumerated rights from state actors.
And until the states wise up and repeal the ill-conceived 17th Amendment, as evidenced by concerns about the integrity of the outcome of Alabama's and Pennsylvania's special elections, patriot candidates need to win elections by a large enough margin to compensate for possible deep state ballot box fraud, associated MSM scare tactics, and interference from people like Soros.
Hacking Democracy - The Hack
To me this is a straight up property rights issue. To limit ones rights because it falls under a “commercial transaction” is comical. If one is not free to trade ones property for a another’s property then we have no rights. when the government is free to ban the trading of ideas one special interest group wants banned, property rights are lost.
If someone wants to trade one own property, for information dealing with one considers a subject of interest, so be it.
Those who want to stop the exercise of property rights, under the guise of regulating commercial transactions, or consumer affairs, are enemies of freedom.