It is not about marijuana as I said.... it is about the rule of law.
By the way, the interstate commerce powers clearly made Fedgov the referee and arbitrator between states. Therefore, when WA marijuana is illegally exported from WA to a state whose voters DO NOT want legal marijuana such as Tennessee the job of Fedgov is to act to protect Tennessee - especially when the federal code says marijuana is illegal.
Don’t like it - get congress to change the laws. Again, as I said before, the executive branch should not usurp the authority of the legislative branch. If a law is wrong it should be changed, but the job of the executive branch is to enforce ALL laws on the books. If not, and the executive branch can selectively enforce any law we are no longer a republic. We are a dictatorship.
vb: It is not about marijuana as I said.... it is about the rule of law.
KH: It is therefore about the Constitution, the highest law in the land.
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vb: By the way, the interstate commerce powers clearly made Fedgov the referee and arbitrator between states. Therefore, when WA marijuana is illegally exported from WA to a state whose voters DO NOT want legal marijuana such as Tennessee the job of Fedgov is to act to protect Tennessee -
KH: Correct. Fedgov has always assisted state inspectors in keeping prohibited articles out of states which prohibit them. That doesn’t mean fedgov gets to ban tobacco in KY because NY has outlawed it and doesn’t want it coming in to the state, for example.
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vb: especially when the federal code says marijuana is illegal.
KH: You just endorsed the Wickard Commerce Clause. That’s where fedgov gets its authority to control health care, education, the environment and virtually every aspect of our lives. Have you forgotten the 10th Amendment?
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vb: Don’t like it - get congress to change the laws. Again, as I said before, the executive branch should not usurp the authority of the legislative branch. If a law is wrong it should be changed, but the job of the executive branch is to enforce ALL laws on the books. If not, and the executive branch can selectively enforce any law we are no longer a republic. We are a dictatorship.
KH: There are 10 gazillion federal laws on the book. Many, if not most, are selectively enforced. For example, seniors are violating federal law by buying prescription drugs from Canada. Yet no senior has been prosecuted, to my knowledge. So you can drop the fiction that this is some principled action on Sessions’ part.