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Yes, and you can bet that the current admin is likely to use that to overturn things like California's ban on flavored tobacco products and similar things.
by lightedman 1y ago
Yes, and you can bet that the current admin is likely to use that to overturn things like California's ban on flavored tobacco products and similar things.
- jimt1234 1y agoThe previous Trump administration sued California for having the audacity to create its own environmental regulations, specifically vehicle smog standards. Not sure how this all ended, but yeah, states rights, except when we don't like what other states are doing.
- Spivak 1y agoCan you imagine if we actually had smart people thinking about these issues? I want to read James Madison's essay about how best to preserve individual state autonomy while avoiding the problem of large states being able to effectively write laws across their borders because of the reality of economics and national manufacturing. There's so much nuance of when each side oversteps and since everything is interstate commerce where the federal government should nonetheless be restrained. It used to be I could read supreme court opinions for this kind of sincere analysis but it seems like the time for discussions like this time is gone.