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White House AI czar and Silicon Valley venture capitalist David Sacks elaborated on the rationale for the executive order in a post on X. Sacks argued that thi
by andsoitis 11mo ago
White House AI czar and Silicon Valley venture capitalist David Sacks elaborated on the rationale for the executive order in a post on X.
Sacks argued that this domain of “interstate commerce” was “the type of economic activity that the Framers of the Constitution intended to reserve for the federal government to regulate.”
At the Oval Office signing ceremony, Sacks said, "We have 50 states running in 50 different directions. It just doesn't make sense."
- mcdan 11mo agoSo much for "states rights" and the "laboratories of democracy."
- AndrewKemendo 11mo agoWe had a pretty decisive event eliminating precicely that experiment
- TimorousBestie 11mo agoCould you be more specific?
- AndrewKemendo 11mo agohttps://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/14th-amendment https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/14th-amendment
- schmidtleonard 11mo agoHe probably means the civil war. I'd like to point out that the South was only a fan of States Rights exactly insofar as they let them do slavery. The millisecond it came to forcing Northern states to return escaped slaves, they suddenly weren't the same principled supporters of devolving and federating power. Funny how that works.
- duskwuff 11mo agoAnd just in case it wasn't clear enough already: one of the first acts of the Confederacy was to draft a provisional constitution which explicitly authorized slavery, and which prohibited either Congress or any state from passing laws to the contrary.
- lesuorac 11mo agoStates also weren't allow to leave the Confederacy ...
- TimorousBestie 11mo agoYeah, I just wanted them to cut out the coy vagueposting and say out loud how bad they think Reconstruction was. So in that respect, mission accomplished.
- stocksinsmocks 11mo ago[flagged]
- TimorousBestie 11mo agoNow that’s an excellent piece of latter-day Confederate apologia that I haven’t heard before. The South was basically Gaza. Amazing work.
- jandrewrogers 11mo agoWickard v Filburn rearing its ugly ahead again. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wickard_v._Filburn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wickard_v._Filburn
- rubyfan 11mo agoI’m not a legal scholar but this seems pretty bone headed.
- lesuorac 11mo agoWhich part? The "The U.S. government had established limits on wheat production, based on the acreage owned by a farmer, to stabilize wheat prices and supplies." seems like quite the federal overreach never mind the court decision.
- rubyfan 11mo agoMostly the decision but yeah it’s a double whammy of bad policy from congress and probably worse ruling from the court.
- threemux 11mo agoMany of the ills currently befalling the US can be traced to the New Deal era. Including, of course, an HN favorite: our system of employer-sponsored health insurance.
- CPLX 11mo ago> Sacks argued that this domain of “interstate commerce” was “the type of economic activity that the Framers of the Constitution intended to reserve for the federal government to regulate.” They did indeed. It’s explicitly delegated to congress which declined to pass a law like this. The EO is just obviously null and void in the face of any relevant state law.