| ▲ | andsoitis 3 days ago |
| White House AI czar and Silicon Valley venture capitalist David Sacks elaborated on the rationale for the executive order in a post on X. Sacks argued that this domain of “interstate commerce” was “the type of economic activity that the Framers of the Constitution intended to reserve for the federal government to regulate.” At the Oval Office signing ceremony, Sacks said, "We have 50 states running in 50 different directions. It just doesn't make sense." |
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| ▲ | mcdan 2 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| So much for "states rights" and the "laboratories of democracy." |
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| ▲ | AndrewKemendo 2 days ago | parent [-] | | We had a pretty decisive event eliminating precicely that experiment | | |
| ▲ | TimorousBestie 2 days ago | parent [-] | | Could you be more specific? | | |
| ▲ | schmidtleonard 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | | He probably means the civil war. I'd like to point out that the South was only a fan of States Rights exactly insofar as they let them do slavery. The millisecond it came to forcing Northern states to return escaped slaves, they suddenly weren't the same principled supporters of devolving and federating power. Funny how that works. | | |
| ▲ | duskwuff 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | | And just in case it wasn't clear enough already: one of the first acts of the Confederacy was to draft a provisional constitution which explicitly authorized slavery, and which prohibited either Congress or any state from passing laws to the contrary. | | | |
| ▲ | TimorousBestie 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | Yeah, I just wanted them to cut out the coy vagueposting and say out loud how bad they think Reconstruction was. So in that respect, mission accomplished. |
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| ▲ | AndrewKemendo 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/14th-amendment | |
| ▲ | stocksinsmocks 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | [flagged] | | |
| ▲ | TimorousBestie 2 days ago | parent [-] | | Now that’s an excellent piece of latter-day Confederate apologia that I haven’t heard before. The South was basically Gaza. Amazing work. |
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| ▲ | CPLX 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| > Sacks argued that this domain of “interstate commerce” was “the type of economic activity that the Framers of the Constitution intended to reserve for the federal government to regulate.” They did indeed. It’s explicitly delegated to congress which declined to pass a law like this. The EO is just obviously null and void in the face of any relevant state law. |
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| ▲ | jandrewrogers 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Wickard v Filburn rearing its ugly ahead again. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wickard_v._Filburn |
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| ▲ | threemux 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | | Many of the ills currently befalling the US can be traced to the New Deal era. Including, of course, an HN favorite: our system of employer-sponsored health insurance. | |
| ▲ | rubyfan 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | I’m not a legal scholar but this seems pretty bone headed. | | |
| ▲ | lesuorac 2 days ago | parent [-] | | Which part? The "The U.S. government had established limits on wheat production, based on the acreage owned by a farmer, to stabilize wheat prices and supplies." seems like quite the federal overreach never mind the court decision. | | |
| ▲ | rubyfan 2 days ago | parent [-] | | Mostly the decision but yeah it’s a double whammy of bad policy from congress and probably worse ruling from the court. |
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