North Carolina Legislature Passes Health Care Freedom Act
Sitting on North Carolina Governor Bev Perdue’s desk – and waiting for action – is House Bill 2 (HB2), the “Protect Health Freedom” act. The bill states that: A law or rule shall not do any of the following: (1) Compel a person to (i) provide for health care services or medical treatment for that [...]
New Hampshire vs the TSA?
A bill to help fix the TSA problem at our airports is coming up for a hearing at 11:15 a.m. on Tuesday in the Legislative Office Building Room 204, which is the Committee on Criminal Justice. Please come show your support for the bill and tell the committee what you have experienced at the airport. [...]
Making a Reporter’s Head Explode
Here’s a brief overview I had with a reporter from DailyClimate.org who wrote: “I’m working on a story about the role of the EPA’s pending greenhouse gas rules are playing in the wave of state’s rights & nullification efforts that appear to be sweeping through a number of state legislatures. “ Q: What do you [...]
Splitting Arizona: Support grows for 51st state
Outraged over efforts in the Arizona State Legislature to nullify unconstitutional federal commands and prohibitions, a growing number of Pima County residents and even a few of their state legislators are proposing that they be permitted to break away from the rest of Arizona in order to form their own state. If they are eventually [...]
Congressional Town Hall Meeting, Feb 21, 2011
On February 21, in the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, Dom Giordano and Gary R’nel hosted aCongressional Town Hall meeting. Guests included Congressman Chaka Fattah(D-PA/2) Congressman Jim Gerlach(R-PA/6) Congressman Mike Fitzpatrick (R-PA/8) Congressman Pat Meehan(R-PA/7) Congressman John Runyan(R-NJ/3) Unfortunately, I couldn’t get the embed code to work, but the first hour podcast is here – Congressional Town [...]
Bill Would Give Arizona Legislative Committee Power To Nullify Unconstitutional Federal “Laws”
“SB 1433 would create an Arizona legislative committee that would have the power to nullify any federal law they find unconstitutional. Opponents say [not surprisingly] the state would be exceeding its powers in creating such a committee.”
Abandon Ship!
Nullification, state sovereignty and the Tenth Amendment have become all the rage over the past year, especially in Republican Party, right wing, Tea Party circles. So much so that most mainstream media reports frame the Tenther movement as an exclusively conservative/right wing phenomenon. But in truth, many of these new-found disciples of the Tenth Amendment [...]
When Did the Bill of Rights Become Un-American?
Democrat Montana Governor Schweitzer made an unannounced visit to the Democrat Caucus Monday to voice his concern over what he calls these un-American and unconstitutional bills. – “When we say, that we will nullify a portion of federal law that is simply saying that we don’t consider ourselves bound by the constitution of the United [...]
Tennessee Senate Passes Health Care Freedom Act
On Wednesday, the Tennessee Senate passed SB0079, the Tennessee Health Care Freedom Act sponsored by Sen. Mae Beavers. The bill passed with 21 Ayes, 10 Nays, and one Present Not Voting. The Tennessee Health Care Freedom Act is essentially the same bill that passed in the Senate but failed in the House during the 2010 [...]
State Sovereignty Rocks the House in New Hampshire 228-108
cross-posted from the New Hampshire Tenth Amendment Center Based on the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions; reworded and translated by Honorable Dan Itse for modern times. HCR19, this years sovereignty bill passes through the House from the State and Federal Committee 228 – 108. Now it is off to the Committee for Constitutional Review and Statutory Recodification. We, the [...]
VA Senate Kills Intrastate Commerce Act Without a Vote
Another year, another trip to the Senate Death Star for the Intrastate Commerce Act (HB1438). Without even recording a vote, the elected “representatives” on the Senate Commerce and Labor Sub-Committee #1 left Virginia residents and businesses exposed to the economic and regulatory ravages of every federal agency from the EPA to the FDA to the BATF. When will [...]
President Obama the Nullifier?
Whenever the subject of state nullification of unconstitutional acts comes up, opponents invariably insist that states don’t have the power to determine the constitutionality of an act, arguing that the Supreme Court serves as the final arbiter. Thomas Jefferson disagreed, pointing out that “as in all other cases of compact among powers having no common [...]
How Can Congress Spend All that Money?
How can a government that supposedly is one of enumerated powers spend trillions of dollars on everything from semi-porn art exhibits to bridges that lead to nowhere? How could a government of enumerated powers have gotten us into such a sinkhole of debt? This posting will explain how the Constitution authorized Congress to spend money. [...]
Montana, Arizona and Tennessee take the lead on broad-based Nullification
As the battle for states’ rights heat up across the country, Montana, Arizona and Tennessee have leaped out into the lead by introducing the first broad-based State Nullification Reaffirmation Act designed to return the power to the people and their states and rein in federal government abuses of misinterpreted power. The Model Legislation was researched [...]
North Dakota House Reaffirms 10th Amendment
Yesterday, the North Dakota house voted to approve HCR3015, a resolution “reaffirming North Dakota’s sovereignty under the 10th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States and to demand the federal government halt its practice of assuming powers and imposing mandates on the states for purposes not enumerated in the Constitution of the United States.” [...]
Montana Governor: Federal Government Can Take a Hike
Missoulian writes, “Defying federal authority over gray wolves, Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer on Wednesday encouraged ranchers to kill wolves that prey on their livestock — even in areas where that is not currently allowed — and said the state will start shooting packs that hurt elk herds. “Schweitzer said he no longer would wait for [...]
Are You Gonna Bark All Day, Little Doggie? Or Are You Gonna Bite?
Less than a year ago, I invited an outspoken critic of state nullification, State Senator Jim Whelan of New Jersey, to debate New York Times best selling author, Thomas E.Woods Jr. on my Blog Talk Radio show. Tom Woods was ready and willing, but not surprisingly, even after attempting to reach Sen. Whelan by phone [...]
Nullification vs. Slavery
Thanks to the brilliant mind of Michael Boldin, founder of the Tenth Amendment Center, the next Nullify Now event takes place March 5 in the Harriet Tubman Theater at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Centerin Cincinnati, and centers around the heroic story of accused fugitive slave Joshua Glover. The Left pretends this story does not exist, since [...]
Help Wanted
NJTAC is working with NJ Liberty, Tea Party, and 9-12 groups, etc…, in an effort to educate people about nullification. This statewide project is in development now. We also need to ensure a victory for our “Constitutional” candidates in the NJ legislature elections this year! 8 districts have been identified as ‘target’ districts. This work starts now if we want to [...]
Arizona SB1178 Moves Forward: Felony Charges for Federal Agents
Late last week, the Arizona Senate passed Senate Bill 1178 (SB1178), the Intrastate Commerce Act. The bill provides that all services performed in the state, and all goods grown or made here for consumption within Arizona “are not subject to the authority of Congress under its constitutional power to regulate commerce among the several states.” [...]
Real ID: Dead in the States, Congress follows suit
Here’s news of yet another nail in the coffin of Real ID. Still on the books in Congress, never overturned in federal court, but null and void in virtually the entire country (Florida, why don’t you join the rest!) From Cato-at-Liberty, it appears that Congress might actually defund the whole mess and make it pretty [...]
Alaska: Another kind of Nullification
While 11 state consider versions of the Health Care Nullification Act (recently passed in the Idaho House and the North Dakota Senate) and other states are looking at rejecting health care mandates alone, Alaska might bypass the entire legislative process – and still nullify the law. Citing Judge Roger Vinson’s decision voiding the whole of [...]
Montana House votes to nullify Endangered Species Act
from the Associated Press: The Montana House has overwhelmingly endorsed a plan to disregard the federal law protecting endangered and threatened species. Republicans enthused by Gov. Brian Schweitzer’s recent tough talk on wolves led a 61-39 vote Saturday to nullify the federal Endangered Species Act in Montana. Schweitzer recently encouraged ranchers to shoot protected wolves [...]
How to worship the State on Presidents Day
By Robert Higgs: Great Leader, who art in Washington, Hallowed be thy name. Thy empire come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in the Oval Office. Give us this day our daily dole. And forgive us our late tax filings, as we forgive the IRS for refunding our overpayments without interest. And lead [...]
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