After considering it for the past year, the unicameral body approved the measure in a 32-11 vote, with six senators abstaining or absent. According to the resolution, the Nebraska legislature seeks to call a convention “limited to proposing amendments to the Constitution of the United States that impose fiscal restraints on the federal government, limit the power and jurisdiction of the federal government, and limit the terms of office for its officials and for members of Congress.”
I say it will be an illegal executive order because as far as I know; the Congress has never voted on a power to allow a president to interfere in state law enforcement laws, rules, or regulations. And I don’t believe the Congress even has the power to do so. The federal government would have to ask the states for permission to interfere in state law enforcement in the form of an amendment to the US Constitution. The federal government was given only 18 enumerated powers in the Constitution. That means that for every power it seeks to give itself, if it is not enumerated (listed) in the Constitution, then they have to ask for permission from the states.
A review by Kaiser Health News of hundreds of pieces of legislation found that, in all 50 states, legislators have proposed bills to curb public health powers since the pandemic began last year. While some governors vetoed bills that passed, at least 26 states pushed through laws that permanently weaken government authority to protect public health. More bills are pending in a handful of states whose legislatures are still in session.
Condemnation from Democrats over the Texas abortion law which recently went into effect has been strong and swift. It was very much a theme of the Sunday morning shows.
The complaint stated that Biden’s Executive order violated “the liberty and property of individuals and the prerogative of sovereign States” by canceling the pipeline. The States argue that when the Constitution was ratified, States ceded the ability to regulate interstate commerce with the U.S. Congress and not the President of the United States.
Speaking at the White House press conference, Jennifer Klein, co-chair of the newly formed White House Gender Policy Council, was asked about a laws passed by Mississippi’s legislature banning transgender athletes from participating in girls’ sports and whether the council plans to do anything to address local laws like this.
Oklahoma’s Senate is slated to vote on a bill that would make the state a 2nd Amendment sanctuary. The bill would nullify Biden’s Executive Orders relating to firearms and ensure guns are a right in the state, as the Constitution says they are. The bill is titled the “Second Amendment Sanctuary State Act.”
