I'm sorry if you're a true believer in "state's rights" but it has always been a dog whistle for disgusting men like Ted Cruz. A way for them to signal being against civil rights without actually saying they oppose them.
In constitutional theory, state sovereignty and state rights are different things. The Constitution created a union of sovereign states and the tenth amendment reserved all powers not specifically delegated to the federal government for the states. That is the essence of state sovereignty.
State rights is a perversion of that constitutional doctrine that placed a state's sovereignty over the inalienable rights of its citizens, first justifying slavery and then justify Jim Crow.
In proper constitutional thinking, a state has no claim to sovereignty or legitimacy if the rights of the people are not protected. Only individuals have rights, a state can have only authority and power granted to them by the people and such is only maintained through legitimacy maintained by respecting and honoring individual rights.
My home state of Utah has been using mail-in ballots since 2013 and we've had no improprieties and we're one of the most Republican states in the nation.
And as I said in the article, the Trump campaign had its day in court to flesh out the "irregularities" and it went nowhere. Are you suggesting the courts (probably Trump's best legacy, by the way, originalist courts) are a fraud as well?
At what point do you consider the convenience of dismissing every fact contrary to the narrative as further fraud suspect?
I'm sorry if you're a true believer in "state's rights" but it has always been a dog whistle for disgusting men like Ted Cruz. A way for them to signal being against civil rights without actually saying they oppose them.
It was never a genuine belief.
In constitutional theory, state sovereignty and state rights are different things. The Constitution created a union of sovereign states and the tenth amendment reserved all powers not specifically delegated to the federal government for the states. That is the essence of state sovereignty.
State rights is a perversion of that constitutional doctrine that placed a state's sovereignty over the inalienable rights of its citizens, first justifying slavery and then justify Jim Crow.
In proper constitutional thinking, a state has no claim to sovereignty or legitimacy if the rights of the people are not protected. Only individuals have rights, a state can have only authority and power granted to them by the people and such is only maintained through legitimacy maintained by respecting and honoring individual rights.
My home state of Utah has been using mail-in ballots since 2013 and we've had no improprieties and we're one of the most Republican states in the nation.
And as I said in the article, the Trump campaign had its day in court to flesh out the "irregularities" and it went nowhere. Are you suggesting the courts (probably Trump's best legacy, by the way, originalist courts) are a fraud as well?
At what point do you consider the convenience of dismissing every fact contrary to the narrative as further fraud suspect?
Conspiracy feeds conspiracy...