SCOTUS usurping states rights to self govern? States have different tax rates, different smoking and drinking laws, different driving laws, different minimum wage laws, different right to work laws, etc. And they also had different homosexual marriage laws...most states allowed it, and the rest would have eventually consented too.
So why did SCOTUS simply override the states wishes? What's next?
tonalc2
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In EVERY state the smoking age is 18, the drinking age is 21, the federal minimum wage is the same.
"the rest would have eventually consented, too." Perhaps, but not in your lifetime.
John J. S
Apparently, someone never read Article VI of the US Constitution. probably never glanced at Amendment XIV paragraph 2. Feds usurped state drinking and smoking laws, demanded ALL bars in EVERY state close at 2am local time. et a minimum wage while allowing states to set a higher minimum, but not a lower one.
What happened to "individual rights are NOT subject to the consent of the majority?"
What's next? kennedy will decide with the other conservatives that reasonable" is too high a bar for the police in routine "probable cause" 4th amendment arrests, Cop only needs "gut feeling" to stop someone. I mean they now only have to think they have a warrant to search your home, they only have to think its the law to stop your car.