For Sanford, the legal battle has been not just about the stimulus money but about executive power in South Carolina as well. When he announced his lawsuit last month, Sanford said [5], “The question you’ve got to ask yourself is if we allow the legislative branch to come in and usurp power that has been granted through a federal law, where are we in terms of balance of power in this state?”Federal law has authority over state law. Pretty simple really. Why is it Republicans want to pretend things never happened and that we as a country are still deciding federal authority vs. state's? Can we please progress to the 21st century???
Dear Mark Sanford, SC Lost the Civil War
I thought federal power was decided when South Carolina opened fire on Fort Sumter in 1861. Such actions by the State of South Carolina started the Civil War in which federal authority over the states was forever affirmed. Apparently in Mark Sanford's Republican Fantasy World none of that ever happened.
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