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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhitaker said he supports state's rights to nullify federal law
By Andrew Kaczynski, CNN
Updated 10:07 PM ET, Fri November 9, 2018
(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."
The notion that states can do away with federal law has been at the heart of some of the country's biggest conflicts.
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Whitaker said he supports state's rights to nullify federal law (Original Post)
DonViejo
Nov 2018
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woodsprite
(11,924 posts)1. So he would be the Devos of the DOJ
Hired to cripple the dept. AND give Trump a set of ears and eyes in those walls. Sounds like hed have a hard time getting through the confirmation process.
vlyons
(10,252 posts)2. KKK clubs across America are thrilled
nt
PatSeg
(47,586 posts)3. Oh, this guy has to go
I can't imagine him lasting very long.
MichMan
(11,971 posts)4. Isnt that essentially what occured with Marijuana legalization?