Posted on 01/25/2019 4:24:08 PM PST by SleeperCatcher
As the partial government shutdown stretches into its fifth week and Democratic leaders continue to refuse even to sit down with President Donald Trump an immigration and border wall funding compromise he offered a week ago, it occurred to me that this isnt POTUS biggest border security issue or even his biggest immigration issue.
Its sanctuary cities or, in the case of California home to Pelosi (no irony there) sanctuary states.
Article IV, Paragraph 2 of the Constitution is generally referred to as the Supremacy Clause. According to the Legal Information Institute at Cornell University Law School, when we say, The Constitution is the law of the land, that is more than just hyperbole:
It establishes that the federal constitution, and federal law generally, take precedence over state laws, and even state constitutions. It prohibits states from interfering with the federal governments exercise of its constitutional powers, and from assuming any functions that are exclusively entrusted to the federal government. It does not, however, allow the federal government to review or veto state laws before they take effect.
It would be nice if more federal judges read and, importantly, followed that mandate, but when judicial activism gets in the way of constitutional interpretation, we get rulings contrary to Article IV, Paragraph 2. But this is why putting constitutionalists on the Supreme Court is all-important.
(Excerpt) Read more at thenationalsentinel.com ...
On the payroll of the Cartels??
You forgot the step where it goes to SCOTUS....
100% spot on.
:) Thanks!
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