re: #35 Daniel Ballard

This much is true, on top of very broad use of the commerce clause, and the lefts ongoing insistence that states do not have rights… That is an oft heard contention states rights are anathema to our culture.

I wish I could disagree with the following bold, but I can not.

“[T]o say, as the Court does, that Arizona contradicts federal law by enforcing applications of the Immigration Act that the President declines to enforce boggles the mind,” Scalia wrote. “If securing its territory in this fashion is not within the power of Arizona, we should cease referring to it as a sovereign State.”

We should cease calling them that. Because they aren’t sovereign, any more than towns or counties are.

Can they issue money? Can they impose tarriffs? Do they enter into treaties? No, no and no. They aren’t countries.