Mississippi ‘Nullification’ Panel Pushed By Tea Party Legislators Would Negate Federal Laws
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Two Tea Party lawmakers in Mississippi have proposed legislation to create a permanent committee charged with nullifying federal laws the state does not want to follow.
Under the legislation, a committee of 14 state lawmakers would be authorized to stop any federal law from applying in Mississippi, the Dispatch reports. The bill comes as state lawmakers around the country have sought to block enforcement of President Barack Obama’s new executive orders related to gun control, often in ways that have been called constitutionally questionable.
Mississippi state Reps. Gary Chism (R-Columbus) and Jeff Smith (R-Columbus), both said that the gun control measures, along with the Affordable Care Act, were the impetus for their proposed nullification panel.
“Obamacare is one of the reasons we started talking about this bill,” Chism told The Dispatch. “Then the new gun control laws brought it back up. The federal government shouldn’t be allowed to tell us we can’t have guns. The Tea Party people are adamant about protecting their Second Amendment rights.”
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