Posted on 12/05/2014 4:21:19 PM PST by Olog-hai
President Barack Obama met Friday with a handful of newly elected governors from across the country, including the Texas Republican who has led efforts to sue the president over his immigration executive orders.
Texas Gov.-elect Greg Abbott said the lawsuit did not come up in his conversations with the president. […]
Obama said much of the agenda for Friday’s meeting focused on the economy and ways states and the federal government can work together to promote growth.
“The good news about governors is they usually don’t have time to be ideological because people expect them to deliver,” Obama said. …
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Have these executive orders been signed and executed? I mean, has anyone reviewed the paperwork to make sure they exist?
I’m surprised that Obama could find the time between fund-raisers.
What EO?????
The weather was too sh!tty for golf and the trip to Hawaii for Kwanzaa-fest isn’t for another week or so.
What’s the point of them meeting with Obama? The POS never listens to anybody.
While the states do need to work with the feds to a certain extent to promote economic growth because of the fed’s power to regulate interstate commerce, I wouldn’t be surprised if these governors are unaware of the following. The Supreme Court had clarified that the states have never delegated to Congress, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate intrastate commerce long before FDR’s activist justices wanted everybody to believe otherwise.
”State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress [emphases added].” —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
That’s very interesting.
Consider Thomas Jefferson’s clarification of Congress’s Commerce Clause powers.
“For the power given to Congress by the Constitution does not extend to the internal regulation of the commerce of a State, (that is to say of the commerce between citizen and citizen,) which remain exclusively [emphases added] with its own legislature; but to its external commerce only, that is to say, its commerce with another State, or with foreign nations, or with the Indian tribes.” –Thomas Jefferson, Jefferson’s Opinion on the Constitutionality of a National Bank : 1791.
Also, using terms like “some concept” and “implicit,” here is what was left of the 10th Amendment after FDR’s activist justices got finished with it in Wickard v. Filburn.
“In discussion and decision, the point of reference, instead of being what was “necessary and proper” to the exercise by Congress of its granted power, was often some concept of sovereignty thought to be implicit [emphases added] in the status of statehood. Certain activities such as “production,” “manufacturing,” and “mining” were occasionally said to be within the province of state governments and beyond the power of Congress under the Commerce Clause.”—Wickard v. Filburn, 1942.
In order for FDR’s thug justices to find (ahem) new powers for corrupt Congress in the Commerce Clause, they not only had to ignore Jefferson and Supreme Court case precedent concerning that clause, but they also had to water the 10th Amendment down to the extent that it was nothing more than a wives’ tale imo.
obama practicing strongarming the new gov’s.
where’d you get the idea he was gonna let them talk. this was a summoning.
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