By IRA STOLL, Special to the Sun |May 25, 2020
Amid the grim coronavirus news of death and unemployment, at least
there is the comic relief of the left embracing the Tenth Amendment.
Suddenly trendy is the provision of the Bill of Rights that “The powers
not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited
by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the
people.”
The rush to the Tenth came in response to President Trump’s statement
on May 22. “I call upon governors to allow our churches and places of
worship to open right now,” Mr. Trump said. “The governors need to do
the right thing and allow these very important, essential places of
faith to open right now, for this weekend. If they don’t do it, I will
override the governors.”
Clara Jeffrey, the editor of Mother Jones, a left leaning magazine,
wasn’t having it. “To be clear, Trump can't do [expletive] to force
churches/temples/mosques to open. Little thing called the 10th
Amendment,” she tweeted.
The White House correspondent of the PBS Newshour, Yamiche Alcindor,
made the same point. “Pres Trump says he will ‘override the governors’
if they don't follow new CDC guidance and open places of worship this
weekend. Context: The 10th Amendment of the Constitution says powers not
delegated to federal government are reserved to the states,” Alcindor tweeted.................when President Obama, a Democrat,
was in the White House, cast doubt on states’ rights efforts.
“Article 6 of the Constitution says federal authority outranks state
authority, and on that bedrock of federalist principle rests centuries
of back and forth that states have mostly lost, notably the
desegregation of schools in the 1950s and ’60s,” the Times reported
then. The Times quoted a law professor, Ruthann Robson, who claimed,
“Article 6 says that that federal law is supreme and that if there’s a
conflict, federal law prevails.”...............To Read More.....
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