”… would amend the federal Animal Welfare Act to ban the slaughter of dogs and cats for human consumption in the United States."
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
The states have never expressly constitutionally delegated to the feds the specific power to make such a law. It’s up to the individual states to make such laws with their unique, 10th Amendment-protected powers.
"From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.So this bill is an unthinking attempt to unconstitutionally expand the already unconstitutionally big federal government’s powers imo.
Corrections, insights welcome.
Yup, your analysid nailed it.
At best it’s rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.
More likely a darker reason to further errode dwindling fascade of Constitutional law-making.
RE: “So this bill is an unthinking attempt to unconstitutionally expand the already unconstitutionally big federal government’s powers imo.
Corrections, insights welcome.”