So, does this mean Republicans are no longer in favor of "State's Rights"? They now believe that the Federal government should be allowed to dictate State law?
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They only liked state's rights when it enabled them to hurt others and line their pockets.
Now that the fed is letting them do that, state's rights can be tossed aside until they need it again.
They only mean states rights when it gets to their desired end point. To some degree that's human nature, but integrity is supposed to make it less common.
Oh man, they're gonna be so mad when they see you pointing out their blatant hypocrisy!
God, Trump really is just a Captain Planet villain.
your daily reminder that Republicans don't give a fuck about you
This doesn't even matter. State's rights are still in effect, no matter what the Senate says and then... what the fuck are they going to do? Force California to register new combustion vehicles in 2035? See you in court in 2037 I guess.
California is going to just keep their policy going and the Fed isn't going to do shit about it. This is just performative bullshit.
This doesn't even matter. State's rights are still in effect,
I'm not sure you understand what this means. "States rights" is a slogan, it's not like codified law. Nothing is "in effect ". Federal law always supercedes state law, and the US Congress 100% can tell CA what to do here.
California's response will be interesting to see, as if they choose not to, then the federal government will come down on them (and trust me, they're obviously looking for excuses)
Not really. Congress can revoke the ability of CA to have stricter standards but they can't force them to continue to register IC engine vehicles.
CA still controls which vehicles they will register within the state. They can't prevent someone from driving into the state with a different registration but they already don't have to register a project car from Colorado that doesn't have fenders. Even Texas can refuse to register that project car. This is already established.
Oh, and they can impound that fenderless project car from Colorado for not meeting their road regulations.
Which would only affect CA, as you pointed out. It would do nothing but hurt CA.
10h amendment to the constitution:
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.
Republicans are evil.