In reaction to my latest complaint about the three states setting up an “abortion offensive” in the last West Coast, Messed Coast™ edition, alert reader Mark Thomas wrote in to remind us: “What these 3 States, CA, WA, OR, plan to do by forming an ‘alliance of abortion access’ is illegal according to the U.S. Constitution, without approval from Congress. It is not known whether the House and Senate would vote to allow this. They probably have the votes, just barely, in the Senate.”
He included the citation from Article 1, Section 10 of that Constitution-thingie which reads, “No State shall, without the Consent of Congress….. enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State…” (Art. I, Section 10)
The pertinent part reads in full, “No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any duty of Tonnage, keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, or engage in War, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay.”
For years, the three states have entered into compacts about climate change, COVID, abortion sanctuary, and illegal alien sanctuary, and now they’re railing against the Supreme Court’s abortion decision and West Virginia v EPA decision that requires Congress to make laws instead of the EPA.
Apparently, the governors feel they’ve been “kneecapped.”
Standing before a stand of burned-out trees – allowed to burn due to the Left’s antipathy to managing forests – Newsom said, “this Supreme Court is hell bent on turning back the clock and ignoring reality. Now, they have kneecapped the federal government’s ability to tackle climate change.”
He included the citation from Article 1, Section 10 of that Constitution-thingie which reads, “No State shall, without the Consent of Congress….. enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State…” (Art. I, Section 10)
The pertinent part reads in full, “No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any duty of Tonnage, keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, or engage in War, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay.”
For years, the three states have entered into compacts about climate change, COVID, abortion sanctuary, and illegal alien sanctuary, and now they’re railing against the Supreme Court’s abortion decision and West Virginia v EPA decision that requires Congress to make laws instead of the EPA.
Apparently, the governors feel they’ve been “kneecapped.”
Standing before a stand of burned-out trees – allowed to burn due to the Left’s antipathy to managing forests – Newsom said, “this Supreme Court is hell bent on turning back the clock and ignoring reality. Now, they have kneecapped the federal government’s ability to tackle climate change.”
