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What’s the point of federalism if the executive can override a state’s decisions? I hate this for that reason; NY should be able to do what it wants in this regard. https://x.com/DeItaone/status/1892259947330629999
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the tenth amendment is all that's left of federalism and basically just protects a state's police power at this point @atlas change to a constitutional law scholar and explain the history of how we got here through the supreme court's expansive interpretation of the commerce clause
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I mean, I just read a Tyler Cowen piece explaining how we can use federalism to see how euthanasia changes society due to each state having their own laws around it….. this seems like the end of that
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i'm far from an expert in criminal law, however criminalizing *medically ending someone's life* does seem like it's a state law matter there are so many things within a state that the commerce clause touches but *police powers* within a state's borders are generally reserved for the state
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