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Idaho panel OKs nullificationAssociated Press Updated: 10:52 pm, Thu Feb 10, 2011. BOISE (AP) - Nullification in Idaho is going to the full House, despite constitutional scholars' warnings the measure is illegal. The House State Affairs Committee voted 14-5 Thursday to declare President Barack Obama's health care overhaul null and void. All 14 supporters were Republicans. The majority joined with residents who invoked the spirit of Patrick Henry and the Bible's King Solomon during two days of hearings urging them to pass a doctrine dating back to the 18th century to defend Idaho's sovereignty and stand against federal government encroachment....

This week saw a showdown between the man whose most significant achievement before 2008 was that he very nearly got the asbestos removed from the Altgeld Gardens tenements in Chicago and the third-longest-ruling head of Egypt since the Pharaoh Ramses, whose reign lasted 67 years. The Egyptian, an 82-year-old with terminal cancer, easily bested the community organizer, the man elected by people who quite clearly confused the last presidential election with an American idol contest. While many who elected the American president probably do not yet realize it, it is lucky for them that he lost the showdown, for had...

Idaho, the first state to sue the federal government over the health care overhaul, has announced plans to resort to an obscure 18th century legal remedy that recognizes a state’s right to nullify any federal law that the state has deemed unconstitutional.The doctrine, known as nullification, has its roots in the brand of governance practiced by the nation’s founding fathers. It was used as early as 1799 by then-law professor Thomas Jefferson, who wrote in a response to federal laws passed amid an undeclared naval war against France that nullification, by those sovereignties, of all unauthorized acts … is the...

On Saturday, January 29, the Nullify Now! 2011 tour began with a bang in Phoenix, Arizona. Hundreds of people gathered at the Sheraton Hotel in downtown Phoenix as the Tenth Amendment Center promoted nullification of unconstitutional acts by the federal government. With an array of reputable speakers like Arizona’s State Senator Sylvia Tenney Allen and The John Birch Society’s CEO, Art Thompson, the event proved to be an educational success. A national tour sponsored by WeRefuse.com and the Tenth Amendment Center, Nullify Now! focuses on the Founding principles of the United States Constitution and educates attendees about the Tenth Amendment,...

A House panel voted Wednesday to provide a full hearing for Idaho’s bill to nullify new federal health care laws. A motion to print the bill for further review passed the House State Affairs Committee 15-4 along party lines, with Republicans voting for and Democrats voting against pursuing the measure. The committee will decide later if the bill will go to the House floor for a vote. Canyon County area lawmakers Rep. Brent Crane, R-Nampa; acting Rep. Gayle Batt, R-Wilder, and Rep. Carlos Bilbao, R-Emmett, all voted to have the bill considered. Democrats questioned how much the bill might cost...

Today, the Virginia House of Delegates overwhelmingly passed House Bill 1438 (HB1438), the Intrastate Commerce Act. The bill, “Provides that all goods produced or manufactured within the Commonwealth, when such goods are held, retained, or maintained in the Commonwealth, shall not be subject to federal law, federal regulation, or the constitutional power of the United States Congress to regulate interstate commerce.” The vote was 65-33. For decades, using a tortured definition of “interstate commerce,” Congress has claimed the authority to regulate, control, ban, or mandate virtually everything – from wheat grown on one’s own land for personal consumption, to weed...

What if Washington made a law and nobody paid attention? Or even more significantly, what if states specifically repudiated it and threatened to prosecute those enforcing it? The questions no longer are rhetorical but a real option as eight states consider a blanket nullification of the Obamacare nationalization of health-care decision-making advances in their legislatures. "Thomas Jefferson advised, 'Whensoever the general government assumes undelegated powers ... a nullification of the act is the rightful remedy,'" states the Tenth Amendment Center, which advocates a return to the constitutionally delegated powers for the federal government. "When states pass laws to reject and...

Recently, the state of Idaho became the first of 6 states to begin process of nullification... Idaho started this process thanks to Tom Woods book Nullification. You can watch a 25+ minute video talk given by Dr. Woods in Ft. Worth on Nullification on why mainstream media figures like Chris Matthews doesn't understand state rights... and why nullification matters.

Idaho, the first state to sue the federal government over the health care overhaul, has announced plans to resort to an obscure 18th century legal remedy that recognizes a state’s right to nullify any federal law that the state has deemed unconstitutional. The doctrine, known as nullification, has its roots in the brand of governance practiced by the nation’s founding fathers. It was used as early as 1799 by then-law professor Thomas Jefferson, who wrote in a response to federal laws passed amid an undeclared naval war against France that nullification, by those sovereignties, of all unauthorized acts … is...

After leading the nation last year in passing a law to sue the federal government over the health care overhaul, Idaho's Republican-dominated Legislature now plans to use an obscure 18th century doctrine to declare President Barack Obama's signature bill null and void. Lawmakers in six other states -- Maine, Montana, Oregon, Nebraska, Texas and Wyoming -- are also mulling "nullification" bills, which contend states, not the U.S. Supreme Court, are the ultimate arbiter of when Congress and the president run amok. It's a concept that's won favor among many tea party adherents who believe Washington, D.C., is out of control....

Purpose The FIJA mission is to educate Americans regarding their full powers as jurors, including their ability to rely on personal conscience, to judge the merit of the law and its application, and to nullify bad law, when necessary for justice, by finding for the defendant. The Fully Informed Jury Association(FIJA)is a nonpartisan public policy research and education organization located in Helena, Montana. FIJA focuses on issues involving the role of the jury in our justice system and the preservation of the full function of the jury as the final arbiter in our courts of law. The FIJA mission is...

Nullify Now in Phoenix - on 01-29-11 - Tickets are FREE. Through historical writings, case studies, and speeches by the Founding Fathers, more than 10 speakers will give you a logical, moral, and constitutionally sound case for nullification, revealing: --How we can roll back Obamacare, cap and trade, and other unconstitutional expansions of federal power through nullification --Why the Founding Fathers believed that nullification was the “moderate middle ground,” not the road to secession --Why the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution gives the states the power to nullify unconstitutional laws --Why states – not the Supreme Court – should arbitrate...

Reporting from Seattle — It seemed a straightforward case: A man with a string of convictions and a reputation as a drug dealer was going on trial in Montana for distributing a small amount of marijuana found in his home — if only the court could find jurors willing to send someone to jail for selling a few marijuana buds. The problem began during jury selection last week in Missoula, when a potential juror said she would have a "real problem" convicting someone for selling such a small amount. But she would follow the law if she had to, she...

A funny thing happened on the way to a trial in Missoula County District Court last week. Jurors – well, potential jurors – staged a revolt. They took the law into their own hands, as it were, and made it clear they weren’t about to convict anybody for having a couple of buds of marijuana. Never mind that the defendant in question also faced a felony charge of criminal distribution of dangerous drugs. The tiny amount of marijuana police found while searching Touray Cornell’s home on April 23 became a huge issue for some members of the jury panel. No,...

Just got off the phone with a long time Constitutional advocate and friend who no longer wants to consider peaceful State Nullification, which was an implied in the Mission Statement of Veterans for Constitutional Restoration (VetsCoR). He and others are itching for a bloody fight if things don't go his way this Novemeber 2nd. I disagree. I believe if enough States were just to tell the Fedgov to "shove it", we may just have an opening back to our Constitutional roots.

....Nullification was used throughout American history on behalf of free speech and free trade, and against unconstitutional searches and seizures, military conscription, and the fugitive slave acts. Pyke doesn't mention this. No one ever does. We must stick to the narrative: the states are stupid and backward, the federal government is a progressive force, and anyone skeptical of this version of events belongs on a watch list.....

November 2nd is our D-Day. It marks the start – not the end – of a soon to be long protracted war. The goal? To take this country back to its founding principle – that government derives its power from the people and therefore is subservient to them. To win, we must pound into dust the victories in the past for federal tyranny set upon this nation by a Supreme Court and ruling class whose bastardization of the Commerce Clause, Supremacy Clause, and General Welfare Clause has set upon us an untamed beast that devours liberty at every turn, under...

Subsequently, when Sheriff DeMeo took office in 2003, he told his deputies that illegal cattle seizures were prohibited and that any federal agents attempting to confiscate cattle would be arrested. Shortly thereafter, the BLM arrived at Hage’s ranch to perform a seizure. The Sheriff’s Deputy told the federal agents that there would be no seizure or taking of cattle, per DeMeo’s decision based on the Constitution. The Deputy was told that the BLM federal agents intended to arrest DeMeo and use armed force to take Hage’s cattle. Sheriff DeMeo advised the federal agent that their SWAT team would be faced...

In the face of the growing behemoth known as the American federal government, states and individual citizens are rediscovering the Tenth Amendment as a defense against tyrannical and unconstitutional measures taken by the fed. Recalling the power assigned to the states by the Founding Fathers, the term “state nullification” has begun to creep back into the American vocabulary as a defense mechanism against this growing Leviathan, even featured as a topic of discussion on Judge Napolitano’s new show Freedom Watch, which aired on August 7 on the Fox Business Network. In an effort to promote the concept of state nullification,...

A bit tongue-and-cheek and a bit serious at the same time. I had some fun with this one. “Obama thinks he is a great asset. He’s off by two letters”. I stared in amazement as he continued. “There but by the grace of God, goes God, that’s what Obama thinks of himself”. Stunned, I had to sit down, my mind racing trying to make sense of a talking dog. Did I smoke something or drink something I shouldn’t have? I looked on in amazement as he continued. “I’ve had it with Obama’s delusions of adequacy! The man is mercifully free...