dudmuck
Diamond Member
explicit congressional consent of interstate compacts is not required for agreements "which the United States can have no possible objection or have any interest in interfering with," but that explicit congressional consent of interstate compacts is required when the underlying compact is "directed to the formation of any combination tending to the increase of political power in the States, which may encroach upon or interfere with the just supremacy of the United States" meaning where the vertical balance of power between the federal government and state governments is altered in favor of state governments.This interstate compact is so blatantly unconstitutional that it won't survive the first challenge. It's too bad the Democrats think our Constitution is just a roll of toilet paper to be shat upon.
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