It
has been on mighty powerful display recently.
Hillary
Clinton, a chief Leftist proponent of centralization/globalization, is praising
States’ rights:
A reality of a Supreme
Court with a right-wing majority is that the states are a new important front
in protecting civil rights—especially the rights of the most vulnerable among
us.
Meanwhile,
on the Right, Evangelicals are celebrating a federal court ruling that
overturns some of the City of Atlanta’s employee regulations:
The city of Atlanta has
agreed to pay its former fire chief, Kelvin Cochran, $1.2 million in the wake
of a December 2017 court ruling that
found some of the city’s policies that led to his termination are
unconstitutional. The court determined that Atlanta’s rules restricting
non-work speech, like the book for Christian men that Cochran wrote, were too
broad and allowed city officials to unconstitutionally discriminate against
views with which they disagree.
Those
on the Right, particularly Evangelicals, have been amongst those complaining
the loudest about government officials not following the original intentions of
the writers of the [u.] S. Constitution.
If they were consistent, they would be upset at this ruling, since it
applies the 1st Amendment to Atlanta’s regulations. As the 1st Amendment was meant to
restrain the Congress in Washington City, not States, cities, and counties, the
federal court actually had no jurisdiction over this case; it should have been
settled in Georgia’s court system according to Georgia’s laws. But since the case involved an issue they
care deeply about, free religious speech, they are apparently content to use
the federal court apparatus to get the result they desire, regardless of the
flouting of constitutional principles.
All
this is simply more evidence of what has become quite obvious: Politics in the States is badly broken.
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Holy
Ælfred the Great, King of England, South Patron, pray for us sinners at the Souð, unworthy though we are!
Anathema
to the Union!
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