> The Federal government has always attached conditions in exchange for Federal funding and Federal contracts. This is not dictating.
It effectively is. Just look up the history of the drinking age - a classic example of the federal government using extortion tactics to override state rights.
Which was also a law passed by Congress. Congress passes laws.
Should we also say that the president can strike down unconstitutional state laws because the Supreme Court is in the federal government?
> Which was also a law passed by Congress. Congress passes laws.
Indeed, but this was a clear evasion of prior laws. I don't like such workarounds in principle - either Congress should have gone the proper way and go for a constitutional amendment, or it should have buried the fucking bill. This created the nasty precedent that the current admin is using to push through the SAVE Act.
I meant this in the form of the Federal government handing out contracts and funding to private businesses, not state government.
I don't think most people would consider "You can't discriminate based on race", to be extortionary. Instead, its a well accepted principle in most of society.
I agree on the matter, but pressuring states with financial strings is not the way to go for it.
All other democracies on this rock just go and modify their constitution, that's the proper way. Y'all just are so completely gridlocked that this is all but impossible...
Same with speed limits.