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Re: Trump states "absolute power"
Reply #14 - 04/16/20 at 01:54:31
FFS, Even Attorney General William Barr said...“States have very broad — as you know, what we call police powers, very broad powers that the federal government doesn't have to regulate the lives of their citizens, as long as they don't violate the Constitution,”
A key Trump loyalist in the House, Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), threw Trump’s words back at him.
“The federal government does not have absolute power,” she wrote on Twitter, before quoting verbatim the 10th Amendment’s promise that powers not apportioned in the Constitution “are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.”
“The federal government does not have that power. The Constitution’s grant of limited, enumerated powers to the national government does not include the right to regulate either public health or all business in the land,” Yoo, now a University of California at Berkeley law professor, wrote bluntly in National Review. “Our federal system reserves the leading role over public health to state governors. States possess the ‘police power’ to regulate virtually all activity within their borders.”
LOL,
Even that constitutional lawyer that the GOP selected to give a contrary opinion in the impeachment hearings, wouldn't buy into this one.
Jonathan Turley, a constitutional law professor at George Washington University who was the sole witness called by Republicans before the Judiciary Committee in the impeachment inquiry into Trump, refuted Trump's claim in a tweet: "The Constitution was written precisely [to] deny that particular claim. It also reserved to the states (& individuals) rights not expressly given to the federal government."
Oh no, now Barr, Cheney and Turley are Deep State Libtards.
7 months to go.
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