Federal nullification bill heads to Idaho House floor

Pull out the 10th Amendment! 

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people. 

All Idaho has to do is to tell the federal government: you do not have the power given to you in the US Constitution to make homosexual marriage legal; or to make abortion legal; or to say that someone has to make a cake for someone; or what animals can graze on our lands; or …

#JustSayNo

Via LMT

No one testifies against move to allow Legislature to block laws, rules, decisions

Legislation that ostensibly gives Idaho lawmakers a way to nullify federal laws, rules and court decisions advanced to the House floor on a voice vote Wednesday.

The House State Affairs Committee, which includes several of the most conservative members of the House, discussed the bill for eight minutes before giving it a do-pass recommendation.

The measure was sponsored by Rep. Paul Shepherd, R-Riggins. It allows members of the Legislature to introduce bills challenging the constitutionality of “any executive order, federal law, federal regulation, federal court or U.S. Supreme Court decision.” Should the bill then be approved and signed into law, the federal actions in question would be declared “null and void and of no effect in this state.”
 
Shepherd said the basic intent is to assert states’ rights and emphasize the states’ role in providing a necessary check on federal power.

“I think we desperately need a way to call them (federal entities) out when they’re unconstitutional,” he said.

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