States Rights

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  12/13/2021
  

  What Justice Kavanaugh Gets Wrong About "Neutrality" on Abortion

  by David Cohen and Maya Manian

  Justice Kavanaugh has joined a long line of jurists who have pretended that the Fourteenth Amendement allows the courts to be neutral when fundamental rights are at issue. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  5/13/2020
  

  States Keep Failing Black People

  by Charles M. Blow

  A look at American history shows that state governments have been agents of black oppression in voting rights, criminal justice, and public health.

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• SOURCE: CNN
  11-10-18
  

  Matthew Whitaker said he supports state's rights to nullify federal law

  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.

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• SOURCE: National Review
  2-9-17
  

  California Goes Confederate

  by Victor Davis Hanson

  Threatening secession is far from the only thing that the Golden State has in common with the Old South.

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• SOURCE: Reuters
  1-26-17
  

  In Trump era, Democrats and Republicans switch sides on states' rights

  It used to be Democrats who favored federal power over states rights.  Now it's the GOP. And vice versa.

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• SOURCE: Politico
  1-23-15
  

  When the South Wasn’t a Fan of States’ Rights

  by Eric Foner

  The strange, often forgotten, history of the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850.