Posted on 02/09/2021 6:28:31 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
A state representative in South Dakota has drafted a bill that, if passed, would essentially allow the state to ignore any executive order from President Joe Biden which is deemed to be unconstitutional.
KELO-TV reported South Dakota state Republican House Rep. Aaron Aylward has introduced a bill, H.B 1194, which would give the state’s attorney general and the governor a cooperative review process for any presidential fiats not approved by the U.S. Congress.
In an interview with KELO, Aylward explained why he drafted the bill, and he had plenty of blame to assign with regard to why he feels states, such as his, should add an additional check on the power of the federal government. One such target was Congress.
“This isn’t just a President Biden issue but rather an overall executive overreach issue that we’ve been experiencing for a long time. The U.S. Congress has abdicated their duty for a long time in different areas,” he said. “This bill is simply setting up a process to nullify acts that would be unconstitutional.”
“When looking at the U.S. Constitution, the President only has the powers that are laid out in Article II,” added the first-term representative from Harrisburg.
If Aylward’s bill passes, all presidential executive orders would be null in South Dakota until approved by a so-called “executive board,” which would include the state attorney general’s office and the governor.
The bill outlines specific types of orders, which the state representative says could endanger individual liberties in his state. For example, any White House edicts relating to a “pandemic or other public health emergency,” would need state approval before being implemented.
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Nullification. Will it work?
So glad I moved to South Dakota!!
This is the way. States’ rights!!
The U.S. Congress has abdicated their duty for a long time in different areas,” he said.
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Hear, hear.
Excellent. Makes sense to me.
Nullification. Will it work?
Federalism got President Demenitia elected.
Federalism will also nullify him.
You know, working on each issue separately, rather than letting all the liberal groups can take a huge hatchet to the Constitution.
Let’s do the “states’ rights thing” with illegal immigration (DACA, for example), and with gun rights, and abortions, and fracking, and freedom of speech (Twitter, Facebook, Amazon, Google, YouTube, Yahoo, etc), and many other areas.
It's my belief that the States have agreed to tolerate this Big Lie for 85+ years, perhaps not even consciously at times, because the Exec. & Legis. branches have not used their illegitimately-acquired power in such an evil, heavy-handed way that they force the hand of the States to finally wake up from their long stupor and say, "Hey! The Constitution actually says you don't have this right!"
Some of the moderating influences that prevented the camel's back from breaking were the existence of the filibuster, and fair elections every 2 years to act as a brake on any party in power who overreaches wayyyy too far (which has ALWAYS been the Dems, in my lifetime).
But with those Guardrails Of Democracy now seriously endangered, maybe the 85-year Rip Van Winkle sleep of some Red States will at long last end.
They can count on the Blue States to fight them tooth & nail on this.
It will only work if the project does not need Federal Funding like the pipeline.
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