REALLY wish DJT would find a way to shitecan the EPA.
Regarding the EPA and other so-called “federal regulatory agencies” that the Constitution is silent about, please consider this. Post-FDR era law schools are evidently not teaching students about the federal government’s constitutionally limited powers as the Founding States had intended for those powers to be understood.
You basically have to start reading Free Republic to find out about the fed’s constitutionally limited powers these days, particularly how the feds are scandalously ignoring Congress’s constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers.
Consider that the last of the state sovereignty-respecting Supreme Court majority justices in FDR’s time had emphasized the already clear meaning of the 10th Amendment (10A), that powers that the states have not expressly constitutionally delegated to the feds are prohibited to the feds.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
The Constitution’s silence about environmental protections means that the late President Nixon and the Congress at the time didn’t have the express constitutional authority to establish the EPA. So we can add environmental protections to the list of constitutionally unique state powers that the post-17th Amendment ratification feds have stolen from the states.
So what happened to 10A-protected state sovereignty?
Using inappropriate words like "concept" and "implicit" here is what was left of 10A-protected state sovereignty after FDR’s state sovereignty-ignoring majority justices got finished with it in Wickard v. Filburn, activist justices wrongly deciding that case in Congress's favor imo.
"10th Amendment: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
"In discussion and decision, the point of reference, instead of being what was "necessary and proper" to the exercise by Congress of its granted power, was often some concept [???] of sovereignty thought to be implicit [??? emphases added] in the status of statehood." —Wickard v. Filburn, 1942.
Unfortunately, PDJT has evidently had no choice but to surround himself with legal advisors who are arguably as institutionally indoctrinated about the fed's limited powers as liberals are imo, and need to start reading Free Republic.
"The Constitution was written to be understood by the voters; its words and phrases were used in their normal and ordinary, as distinguished from technical, meaning; where the intention is clear, there is no room for construction and no excuse for interpolation or addition [emphasis added]." —United States v. Sprague, 1931.
"Beware of English-to-English 'translations' of the Constitution!" —me
The remedy for the unconstitutionally big federal government on our backs…
Patriots need to elect a new patriot Congress in the 2020 elections that will not only promise to fully support PDJT’s vision for MAGA, now KAG, but also consider this.
New patriot lawmakers also need to promise to support PDJT in surrendering state powers that the feds have been stealing from the states back to the states.
And to make such changes permanent, patriots need to further support PDJT in leading the states to repeal the 16th and ill-conceived 17th Amendments.
Remember in November 2020!
MAGA! Now KAG! (Keep America Great!)