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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhitaker, 2014: States have the right to nullify federal law, but need political courage to do so
https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/09/politics/matthew-whitaker-nullification/index.html
(CNN)Matthew Whitaker, the new acting attorney general, has said that states have the right to nullify federal law, but that they need the political courage to do so.
Whitaker, whom President Donald Trump announced as acting attorney general on Wednesday after he fired Jeff Sessions, made the comments during a failed 2014 run for the Republican Senate nomination in Iowa.
"As a principle, it has been turned down by the courts and our federal government has not recognized it," Whitaker said while taking questions during a September 2013 campaign speech. "Now we need to remember that the states set up the federal government and not vice versa. And so the question is, do we have the political courage in the state of Iowa or some other state to nullify Obamacare and pay the consequences for that?"
"The federal government's done a very good job about tying goodies to our compliance with federal programs, whether it's the Department of Education, whether it's Obamacare with its generous Medicare and Medicaid dollars and the like," he added. "But do I believe in nullification? I think our founding fathers believed in nullification. There's no doubt about that."
Whitaker added he didn't think states had the "political courage to nullify Obamacare."
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Whitaker, 2014: States have the right to nullify federal law, but need political courage to do so (Original Post)
Miles Archer
Nov 2018
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guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)1. Your civil war was fought over essentially the same issue.
Perhaps he should exercise his brain more, and his mouth less.
Cha
(297,274 posts)2. Yeah, thanks whitaker
dalton99a
(81,513 posts)3. Stupid dildo
roamer65
(36,745 posts)4. Ok. Whitaker...you useless fuck.
That means blue states have the right to nullify right wing federal laws.
Tit for tat.
LiberalFighter
(50,942 posts)6. He can't think clearly.
Solly Mack
(90,769 posts)5. Another one of those.
Still fighting the civil war.
MarvinGardens
(779 posts)7. The 1830s called.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nullification_Crisis
States cannot nullify federal law. But the federal government cannot force a state to enforce a federal law, nor can they force a state to change their laws to match federal law.
States cannot nullify federal law. But the federal government cannot force a state to enforce a federal law, nor can they force a state to change their laws to match federal law.
GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)8. Isn't this dumb fuck from Iowa?
His ancestors died by the thousands and killed a shit ton of my ancestors to prove the opposite point.
And not being hyperbolic. Iowans paid a hell of a price at Shiloh for a good cause and I had ancestors die there fighting for a shitty one.
This guy is a fucking traitor.
rusty fender
(3,428 posts)9. How much you wanna bet that
he only believes that when a Democrat is the President