Constitutional Law

Montana's exemption

Story here. While I agree with the idea, I can't see the legislation as having much practical impact. If a Federal law is unconstitutional, it is so whatever a State may legislative. If it is constitutional, then under the Supremacy Clause it overrides whatever a State may legislate. And, unfortunately, courts have tended to find anything constitutional that relates to anything vaguely resembling interstate commerce.

Full post as published by Of Arms and the Law on April 17, 2009 (boomark / email).