Why would a state have a law

[SassyIrishLass]

State's rights...much of why the Civil War took place

Ignorant nonsense.

The issue has nothing to do with 'states' rights,' no one is seeking through force of Federal law to compel a state to remove any flags.

And the role of states in the Federal system was decided and settled long before the Civil War; Article VI of the Constitution makes clear that the states are subject to Federal laws, the rulings of Federal courts, and the Constitution's case law, where Constitutional jurisprudence is the supreme law of the land, and the states have no 'right' to seek to 'ignore' or 'nullify' acts of Congress or rulings of the Supreme Court.

Of course it is state's right, you ignorant nincompoop

 

[Mace]

An example of state's rights....

Pence: EPA must change emissions rules or Indiana won't comply

Pence EPA must change emissions rules or Indiana won t comply

Soon to be an example of loss of federal funding. IN is slightly retarded.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

An example of state's rights....

Pence: EPA must change emissions rules or Indiana won't comply

Pence EPA must change emissions rules or Indiana won t comply

Soon to be an example of loss of federal funding. IN is slightly retarded.

Your avatar offends me....poofter

 

[Valerie]

Your avatar offends me....poofter

do you need a tissue?

 

[JakeStarkey]

 

[Ravi]

"fold it up and put it away" - Robert E. Lee

• Fold it up and put it away.
  • When asked by a woman on what she should do with a Confederate flag after the end of the American Civil War, as quoted in "Will Confederate Heritage Advocates Take Robert E. Lee’s Advice?" (July 2014), by Brooks D. Simpson, Crossroads, WordPress.
• Madam, don't bring up your sons to detest the United States government. Recollect that we form one country now. Abandon all these local animosities, and make your sons Americans.

"The march of Providence is so slow, and our desires so impatient; the work of progress is so immense and our means of aiding it so feeble; the life of humanity is so long, that of the individual so brief, that we often see only the ebb of the advancing wave and are thus discouraged. It is history that teaches us to hope."

Robert E. Lee - Wikiquote

Interesting. It just occurred to me that our many immigrants would make better citizens than the nutters.

 

[Auld Phart]

"fold it up and put it away" - Robert E. Lee

• Fold it up and put it away.
  • When asked by a woman on what she should do with a Confederate flag after the end of the American Civil War, as quoted in "Will Confederate Heritage Advocates Take Robert E. Lee’s Advice?" (July 2014), by Brooks D. Simpson, Crossroads, WordPress.
• Madam, don't bring up your sons to detest the United States government. Recollect that we form one country now. Abandon all these local animosities, and make your sons Americans.

"The march of Providence is so slow, and our desires so impatient; the work of progress is so immense and our means of aiding it so feeble; the life of humanity is so long, that of the individual so brief, that we often see only the ebb of the advancing wave and are thus discouraged. It is history that teaches us to hope."

Robert E. Lee - Wikiquote

Interesting. It just occurred to me that our many immigrants would make better citizens than the nutters.

You have a point, ravi.

Many of those immigrants are more likely to follow the rule of law than you nutters, and wait til the legal procedures have been followed to take down that flag.

 

[AmericanFirst1]

State's rights...much of why the Civil War took place

Bullshit. I have every right in the world to burn a confederate flag and states are not free to offer special protections to symbols of treachery.

State's have rights. the Constitution grants them

Ravi and I'll like her don't care about the constitution.

 

[PratchettFan]

making it illegal to move a confederate flag without a super majority vote of the legislature?

Why has South Carolina give this symbol of treason and racism such power?

It's their state. If the people of that state want it changed, they have the right petition their government.

 

[PratchettFan]

State's rights...much of why the Civil War took place

Bullshit. I have every right in the world to burn a confederate flag and states are not free to offer special protections to symbols of treachery.

State's have rights. the Constitution grants them

They do not have unlimited powers. Protecting a rag does not fall within the scope of their powers. Individual rights are more important than the con flag.

Really? Please point out in the Constitution where is says that a state can't fly a flag. I'll wait.

 

[Ravi]

State's rights...much of why the Civil War took place

Bullshit. I have every right in the world to burn a confederate flag and states are not free to offer special protections to symbols of treachery.

State's have rights. the Constitution grants them

They do not have unlimited powers. Protecting a rag does not fall within the scope of their powers. Individual rights are more important than the con flag.

Really? Please point out in the Constitution where is says that a state can't fly a flag. I'll wait.

Equal protection

 

[PratchettFan]

State's rights...much of why the Civil War took place

Bullshit. I have every right in the world to burn a confederate flag and states are not free to offer special protections to symbols of treachery.

State's have rights. the Constitution grants them

They do not have unlimited powers. Protecting a rag does not fall within the scope of their powers. Individual rights are more important than the con flag.

Really? Please point out in the Constitution where is says that a state can't fly a flag. I'll wait.

Equal protection

I'm sorry. Is there some law which says these people can fly the flag but those people can't? If everyone can fly a flag, there is equal protection.

Let me counter. First Amendment.

 

[Ravi]

Bullshit. I have every right in the world to burn a confederate flag and states are not free to offer special protections to symbols of treachery.

State's have rights. the Constitution grants them

They do not have unlimited powers. Protecting a rag does not fall within the scope of their powers. Individual rights are more important than the con flag.

Really? Please point out in the Constitution where is says that a state can't fly a flag. I'll wait.

Equal protection

I'm sorry. Is there some law which says these people can fly the flag but those people can't? If everyone can fly a flag, there is equal protection.

Let me counter. First Amendment.

People can fly whatever they wish. A government favoring one group over another by flying their symbol isn't equal protection.

 

[Manonthestreet]

"fold it up and put it away" - Robert E. Lee

• Fold it up and put it away.
  • When asked by a woman on what she should do with a Confederate flag after the end of the American Civil War, as quoted in "Will Confederate Heritage Advocates Take Robert E. Lee’s Advice?" (July 2014), by Brooks D. Simpson, Crossroads, WordPress.
• Madam, don't bring up your sons to detest the United States government. Recollect that we form one country now. Abandon all these local animosities, and make your sons Americans.

"The march of Providence is so slow, and our desires so impatient; the work of progress is so immense and our means of aiding it so feeble; the life of humanity is so long, that of the individual so brief, that we often see only the ebb of the advancing wave and are thus discouraged. It is history that teaches us to hope."

Robert E. Lee - Wikiquote

Funny ...a quote from someone libs want to erase

 

[PratchettFan]

State's have rights. the Constitution grants them

They do not have unlimited powers. Protecting a rag does not fall within the scope of their powers. Individual rights are more important than the con flag.

Really? Please point out in the Constitution where is says that a state can't fly a flag. I'll wait.

Equal protection

I'm sorry. Is there some law which says these people can fly the flag but those people can't? If everyone can fly a flag, there is equal protection.

Let me counter. First Amendment.

People can fly whatever they wish. A government favoring one group over another by flying their symbol isn't equal protection.

You mean if California wants to fly their state flag they have to fly the flags or every other state as well? Does that extend to statues? If they have a statue of one general they have to have a statue of every other general?

 

[Ravi]

They do not have unlimited powers. Protecting a rag does not fall within the scope of their powers. Individual rights are more important than the con flag.

Really? Please point out in the Constitution where is says that a state can't fly a flag. I'll wait.

Equal protection

I'm sorry. Is there some law which says these people can fly the flag but those people can't? If everyone can fly a flag, there is equal protection.

Let me counter. First Amendment.

People can fly whatever they wish. A government favoring one group over another by flying their symbol isn't equal protection.

You mean if California wants to fly their state flag they have to fly the flags or every other state as well? Does that extend to statues? If they have a statue of one general they have to have a statue of every other general?

No, that isn't what I mean.

 

[PratchettFan]

Really? Please point out in the Constitution where is says that a state can't fly a flag. I'll wait.

Equal protection

I'm sorry. Is there some law which says these people can fly the flag but those people can't? If everyone can fly a flag, there is equal protection.

Let me counter. First Amendment.

People can fly whatever they wish. A government favoring one group over another by flying their symbol isn't equal protection.

You mean if California wants to fly their state flag they have to fly the flags or every other state as well? Does that extend to statues? If they have a statue of one general they have to have a statue of every other general?

No, that isn't what I mean.

Then what do you mean?

 

[saintmichaeldefendthem]

State's rights...much of why the Civil War took place

Bullshit. I have every right in the world to burn a confederate flag and states are not free to offer special protections to symbols of treachery.

Then do it in one of those states. Be sure to webcast it live. And don't be a pussy and burn it where nobody can see you, burn it in front of the state capitol.

 

[Ravi]

No one answered the question.

 

[hortysir]

The title of the OP is the same question I've been considering for that last week or two......
Why should states bother with passing any laws if SCOTUS is just gonna knock em down