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California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) announced just one day after the U.S. officially withdrew from the World Health Organization (WHO) that his state would become the first to join the organization’s Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network, in a seeming rebuke of the Trump administration’s withdrawal from international collaborations.
Newsom traveled this week to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where he was scheduled to speak at an event but was canceled at the last moment. During his trip, he met with WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
Is this not exactly what the republican party has been asking for for the last 40 years? States choosing laws and not federal?
Only in matters where they can’t get a federal majority
Republicans were never really about states rights. They were only about THEIR rights.
And vehemently against a bunch of you rights.
It depends on which Republicans, I suppose.
Many seem to argue about states rights in regards to the Civil War, wherein the southern states wanted rights to enter northern states and force them to obey the southern State’s laws…
To me, enforcing laws across state lines seems far more Federalist than State isolationist.
And I would argue many claiming “States Rights” today want their states rules to be enacted in other states as well, e.g. the push to federally ban abortions