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The title was "German State Justice Minister Calls for Boycott of US companies". I think the only way to roll this back, if it even can be rolled back, is to a
by youngerdryas 13y ago
The title was "German State Justice Minister Calls for Boycott of US companies".
I think the only way to roll this back, if it even can be rolled back, is to attack from the states using state power. If CA, NY, TX, UT, VT, every state, starts making their own privacy laws to hamstring the Feds they may have to change their tune for practicality.
- akiselev 13y agoFederal laws will overrule state laws every time in this case. The gov't will just claim national security/intelligence laws aren't covered by the 10th Amendment. The only thing the states could do is pass a Constitutional amendment but that has never been done through state assemblies before.
- smhinsey 13y agoI'm not sure that the states have any power here. If there's a federal law legalizing it, it doesn't matter what the state laws are. It's basically the reverse of the medical/legal marijuana scenario.
- pessimizer 13y agoIt seems to be working there, though. Also for gay marriage which has become an inevitability.
- mpyne 13y agoMarriage as a concept has always been left to the states. The NSA is by statute international in scope (they are defined as signals intelligence pertaining to foreign nations), and that has always been left to the Federal government exclusively. The individual states don't even have a dream here.
- youngerdryas 13y agoThere are federal laws against marijuana but the Feds don't bust people in MA for smoking weed, though apparently technically they could.