We already have systems in place to challenge the constitutionality of laws. Placing people, individuals, citizens between feuding levels of government is not one of them.
You are entitled to your opinion, but I am entitled to disagree.
The people are sovereign, and the system, and Federal government has not been responsive for some time.
I agree with Texas on this one. You may of course choose to disagree with me and let them ship you, your neighbor, or your family off to Gitmo or wherever they want to without due process.
How -exactly- do you challenge the constituionality of a law that denies you the right to an attorney or any kind of hearing. NDAA literally authorizes soldiers to pick up anyone deemed to be supporting terrorist efforts, transport them away, and hold them as long as they please.
You do not get an attorney, and there are no hearings.
Thats the scary point of NDAA, the systems to challenge constitutionality were swept away.
Only for radical muslims you say? Think again. Remember when the Homeland Fusion Center in Missourri said indicators or terror included Gadsden Flags, Ron Paul Stickers, TEA slogans, or indicators of wanting to follow the constitution? Then remember when the news stories were filled with warnings of racist TEA parties? Remember how they said TEA was potentially violent? Remember how they always portray Tim McViegh as a TEA type terrorist?
Hint,,,NDAA ain’t for Major Hassan, it’s for all of US.
And it is not citizens between feuding levels of government. It is state government protecting it’s citizens from a federal government that has clearly turned away from the Constitution. Your answer is to appeal to that SAME federal government to please have mercy on us, and please stop operating outside of constitutional limts?
Your view of the states reduces them to mere administrative districts of the national government.
Parts of Texas have their own Social Security program.