> How could this be considered "federal overstepping"? Because just about anything is considered federal overreach in much of the US. Remember, this country wa

> How could this be considered "federal overstepping"? Because just about anything is considered federal overreach in much of the US. Remember, this country was founded on resistance to a far-off authority. The south got a "booster shot" of anti-federal-government sentiment with the civil war, and still haven't gotten over it 170 years later. We even had a president (Reagan) who explicitly sowed distrust of the very federal government he headed, and that was during my adult lifetime. Whole books have been written about the quintessentially American distrust of any government beyond the horizon, so I could hardly do it justice here, but I will note that it's a key part of every other political debate we have.