How Trump Killed the GOP’s Love of States’ Rights

'Now Trump’s in charge': Why Republicans killed GOP’s love of states’ rights

Bulwark journalist and author Jonathan Cohn reports that Republicans passionately embraced the battle against federal overreach for most of the modern political era, but President Donald Trump finally changed all that.Party conservatives, he says, used arguments against overreach “to block everything from the landmark civil rights efforts of the 1950s and ’60s to the environmental and consumer-protection laws of the ’70s and ’80s.”More recently,…

How Trump Killed the GOP’s Love of States’ Rights

(Composite by Hannah Yoest / Photos: GettyImages / Shutterstock)DONALD TRUMP SURE DOES love to hate California.Since taking office, he has blocked the state’s tight vehicle emission standards from taking effect, attacked its public schools over trans athletes and “DEI” issues, repeatedly threatened to withhold disaster relief after the devastating forest fires, and tried to yank federal financing from if California doesn’t do more to enforce his…

GOP bill would grant Trump right to deploy National Guard for immigration enforcement

New legislation proposes giving presidents power to deploy National Guard for immigration enforcement and imposes penalties for assaults on officers amid sanctuary tensions.

Bill Seeks to Block Oregon National Guard from Being Deployed By Trump, Future Presidents - The Corvallis Advocate

House Democrats voted Friday to protect the Oregon National Guard from being used as law enforcement or deployed by the federal government without consent of the governor, as legal arguments over President Donald Trump’s ability to do that with the California National Guard continue. Rep. Paul Evans, D-Monmouth, said he never wanted to introduce legislation like House Bill 3954, but that he considered it necessary to preserve longstanding tradit…