Since President Joe Biden took office, conservative states have clashed with the federal government on topics ranging from COVID-19 to the economy to abortion.
Americans might be forgiven for wondering: who is supposed to be in charge?
The latest examples come from the highly-conservative state of Texas, where Gov. Greg Abbott has clashed with Biden in nearly every facet of politics.
Just last week, State Attorney General Ken Paxton announced a lawsuit against the federal government for halting the southern border wall project started by former President Trump.
"The Department of Homeland Security’s termination of construction contracts is not only unlawful, but it goes against their own research that concluded that the border wall — actual physical barriers, not just border-security technology — is extraordinarily effective in controlling illegal immigration, drug trafficking, and all the costs that go with it," Paxton said in a press release.
While Biden signed executive orders 1,500 miles away in his Washington sanctuary, illegal immigration in Abbott’s state turned into an inevitable, chaotic crisis.
When will the federal government stop tyrannizing states with opposing political leaders and allow each state to function independently as the Constitution intended?
We’ve seen the same situation when it comes to the contentious abortion debate. A new Texas law went into effect in September that bans all abortions after a heartbeat is detected, around six weeks. The state legislation became an immediate target of the pro-abortion-up-to-birth Biden administration.
Biden called the law an “unprecedented assault” on women’s rights and vowed a “whole-of-government effort” to fight the law. The Supreme Court has decided to hear the case on Nov. 1, but it will not block the law before then.
Federal overreach is nothing new, of course. Washington has been waging an all-out war on state independence and self-governance for decades.
Elected officials in each state, from the governor down to the local level, are more in touch with the people they represent than federal officials. That’s why, since the founding of America, states were intended to have more power than the federal government.
Convention of States Action intends to restore the power to the states and the people.
Through Article V of the Constitution, the states can call a Convention of States so that state leaders can come together and limit the federal government’s powers.
This won’t just benefit conservatives states like Texas. Amendments that limit federal power will give all states more freedom, whether deep red states like Alabama and Wyoming to extremely blue states like New York and California. Rather than one centralized dictatorship, each state will have more freedom to act within the confines of the Constitution.
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Texas stands up to defend border wall in latest clash between state and federal governments
Published in Blog on October 25, 2021 by Article V Patriot
