Defending States' Rights
Grits for Breakfast takes issue with New York Times columnist Bob Herbert over "states' rights." Big Tent Democrat weighed in here with an opposing view.
I'm with Grits for Breakfast. When I think "states' rights" I think of the alternative, which has resulted in the mass federalization of state crimes. As Grits says:
I'm horrified by the abuse of the Interstate Commerce Clause to justify federal regulation in areas where it has no business, transforming what was intended to be a limited federal government into a nearly all-powerful one.
I consider the federal War on Drugs and the expansion of federal prisons, law enforcement and immigration detention a direct spite to the separation of federal and state powers articulated in the Constitution.
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