With the bill, Utah joins a long-standing small-c conservative push to promote states’ rights

it's written like they're trying to pass this off as a thing with precedent and nothing new, but... kinda seems like Utah is trying to keep the LDS church from being investigated or prosecuted federally? That seems pretty unprecedented. For a long time, the Church has had this belief in a prophecy that it's destined to Save The Country by folding the constitutional systems into its own structures. A kinda Catholic Papacy / Roman Empire sorta style deal. They're sitting on a lot of money, and it's more than just tithing. That I'm aware of, the LDS church owns a significant amount of ranch-land in Nevada, Idaho, and Florida; as well as a bunch of stock in a wide variety of companies. The big one I've heard about is The Coca-Cola Company (KO).

At it's most crass, they're a dragon looking to protect their hoard. But... as a social organization, they cultivate a lot of capital-t capital-b True Believers, and not just in general membership. I'm sure there are cynics in leadership... but I suspect they're in the minority. Utah may be the indicator of interesting times.

I hope they write a "Supreme Supremacy clause" to cancel out any state issues supremacy clauses and the legal arms race never ends

I love balkanization news 😍

what happened with the Texas border standoff anyway?

Is it constitutional? No.

Does that mean anything? No.

Are they going to use this to do evil shit? :pain:

I don’t think Utah would fare so well in a Balkanization scenario.

Caliphate of Deseret here we come

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The question isn't 'is it constitutional?' the questions is ~~'am I gay?'~~ 'what happens when they overturn federal law and Trump/Brandon is in power?'

The Legislature may, by concurrent resolution, prohibit a government officer from enforcing or assisting in the enforcement of a federal directive within the state if the Legislature determines the federal directive violates the principles of state sovereignty

if i understand that correctly that's perfectly constitutional and states do it all the time wrt federal law enforcement. the difference is between cooperation/noncooperation with federales and preventing them from doing their shit, the latter this bill doesn't seem to be preparing for.

Utahan nationalism in the United States was something quite different from, let us say, Texan, Floridan or Californian nationalism in that the former was a mere whim, a folly of a few dozen petty-bourgeois intellectuals without the slightest roots in the economic, political or psychological relationships of the country; it was without any historical tradition, since Utah never formed a nation or government, was without any national culture, except for the reactionary-romantic tablets of Joseph Smith.

it is if you let them get away with it

so the nullification crisis, but as farce?

Maybe voting for Biden really is harm reduction

jk I’ll never vote lol

This is only slightly dumber than Hawaii declaring the "spirit of aloha" overrides enumerated rights in the Constitution.