“Not without precedent - remember back when the Fed’s forced the national 55 MPH limit on the States by threatening to withhold highway funds if they didn’t?”
I got one of those ‘tickets’. Fifty miles west of Phoenix on I-10 in the middle of nowhere.
Spotter plane and five or so LEO vehicles and pulling people over faster than they could write the tickets.
“...remember back when the Fed’s forced the national 55 MPH limit on the States by threatening to withhold highway funds if they didn’t?”
Sure do, I also remember the gas crisis, luckily I was a college student on a 10 speed.
By the time I was out of school and need wheels I ran beaters which performed quite nicely at 55mph. So, whether the limit was 70 or 60... I was doing 55 by proxy.
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." They did it because they could - had nothing to do with right & wrong.
This generation has lost its moral compass - if it's legal, it must be okay. If it's illegal, it must be wrong.
Thank G-d for faith-based civil disobedience.