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Keystone XL Pipeline Bill Stalls in Senate

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EPR-radar11/18/2014 7:09:04 pm PST

re: #105 Dark_Falcon

And how would they do that? It’s a whole legal miasma in play down there, from how towns are established, to how traffic tickets are paid for, to how sales tax revenue is divided. Such matters cannot be simply remade by fiat. They require state legislation, and such legislation would impact on a large amount of social fears and rent-seeking.

A Federal civil rights case is all the leverage that is needed, if there is a will to pursue it. The Federal tool kit from the tail end of the Jim Crow era is still there, plus RICO powers that are practically unlimited.