LOL. One of the major libertarian-leaning publications in the U.S. has no patience with Republicans on the issue of marijuana prohibition.
Republican legislators have repeatedly criticized the Obama administration's response to marijuana legalization in Colorado and Washington, arguing that the president is constitutionally bound to crush these experiments. "Federal law takes precedence" over state law, Rep. Jason Smith (R-Mo.) told Attorney General Eric Holder during a congressional hearing last week. "The state of Colorado is undermining...federal law, correct? Why do you fail to enforce the laws of the land?"
Republicans like Smith not only accept the fanciful notion, which is no less absurd for having been endorsed by the Supreme Court, that interstate commerce, which Congress is authorized to regulate, includes marijuana that never crosses state lines, down to a bag of buds in a cancer patient's drawer. They also argue, as Smith does, that "state law conflicts with federal law" if it does not punish everything that Congress decides to treat as a crime.
This insistence that only one policy—prohibition—can be allowed with respect to pot and poker is not just unprincipled but politically perilous. Polls indicate most Americans think marijuana and online poker should be legal, and that view is especially common among young voters.
...That is a "conservative reform agenda" of sorts, I suppose. But it is not at all "new," and it aims to reform us rather than the government.
http://reason.com/archives/2014/04/16/pot-poker-and-prohibitionism
So,
which Republicans hate Americans so much they want to sue the President to uphold federal prohibition and INVADE the states of Colorado and Washington (and, soon... Alaska and Oregon)...not to mention they WASTED tax payer money on the bill itself, which does not represent the will of the American voter.
Reps. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.), Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), Jim Gerlach (R-Pa.) and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), the ENFORCE the Law Act (H.R. 4138) would allow the House or the Senate to sue the president for “failure to faithfully execute federal laws,” including those related to immigration, health care and marijuana.
I guess this looks good for the 70 year old crank in a barcalounger Fox News watching constituency, tho. Hey, they don't even have to change their battle cry too much.. "been ganja"... nah, that foreign word might rile the anti-immigration coalition.
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/113/hr4138
Co-sponsors of this waste of tax payer money:
Cosponsors
22 cosponsors (22R) (show)
Bachus, Spencer [R-AL6]
Black, Diane [R-TN6]
Chabot, Steve [R-OH1]
Chaffetz, Jason [R-UT3]
Collins, Doug [R-GA9]
Duncan, Jeff [R-SC3]
Forbes, Randy [R-VA4]
Franks, Trent [R-AZ8]
Gerlach, Jim [R-PA6]
Goodlatte, Bob [R-VA6]
Issa, Darrell [R-CA49]
Jordan, Jim [R-OH4]
Kelly, Mike [R-PA3]
Labrador, Raúl [R-ID1]
Sensenbrenner, James [R-WI5]
Smith, Jason [R-MO8]
Smith, Lamar [R-TX21]
Poe, Ted [R-TX2] (joined Mar 06, 2014)
Wagner, Ann [R-MO2] (joined Mar 06, 2014)
Westmoreland, Lynn [R-GA3] (joined Mar 06, 2014)
Rigell, Edward “Scott” [R-VA2] (joined Mar 07, 2014)
Sessions, Pete [R-TX32] (joined Mar 07, 2014)
Feel free to contact your state representative to ask why they are wasting the time and money of American citizens with an Act that ignores the very real issue of prosecutorial discretion, not to mention the overwhelming opinion of the majority of Americans, as well as the so-called "federalism" of nanny state Republicans.
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