UT professor about Medina - Nullification a constitutional fiction

[undergroundrr]

h ttp://www.statesman.com/opinion/insight/commentary-states-can-t-nullify-federal-law-217250.html

Commentary: States can't nullify federal law
Proposal in Texas governor's race is a legal and constitutional fiction

He's a professor of law at UT Austin. He's previously written, not entirely negatively about Ron Paul at
h ttp://www.utexas.edu/law/faculty/slevinson/undemocratic/blog/2007/12/on-ron-paul.html

He's been pushing for a constitutional convention. This guy needs several earsful.

 

[rprprs]

(reluctantly) registered at the site and left a comment.

 

[FrankRep]

Sanford Levinson, you're wrong!


Judge Napolitano and Tom Woods on Nullification

YouTube - Thomas Woods : States Can Nullify Unconstitutional Federal Laws!

 

[seeker4sho]

Sanford Levinson, you're wrong!


Judge Napolitano and Tom Woods on Nullification

YouTube - Thomas Woods : States Can Nullify Unconstitutional Federal Laws!

Thanks for posting the YouTube.

 

[Matt Collins]

Ask this guy what he thinks the KY and VA resolutions mean?

 

[qh4dotcom]

UT professor:

Also, to answer another question, my current candidate of choice is Sen. Obama, largely because I have most trust in his judgment, and I believe that his election would help transform the current dreadful image of the US around the world. But I will happily vote for any Democrat who gets the nomination.

 

[RPTXState]

Had to read his book last semester. On top of being a progressive liberal, he advocates for a complete Constitutional Convention, basically a rewrite from scratch.

 

[Kotin]

******** tool alert **********

 

[NightOwl]

http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/49805.html

February 6, 2010
States Can’t Nullify, Because I Said So
Posted by Thomas Woods on February 6, 2010 07:04 PM

Funny to watch the establishment’s reaction to the reappearance of the idea of state nullification of unconstitutional federal laws. This isn’t allowed, of course — the right of Ivy Leaguers to impose their theories on the country shall not be infringed.

The extremely conventional Sanford Levinson trots out all the old arguments. My book on this subject, slated for mid-June release, answers all of them many times over. But especially dishonest is Levinson’s by-the-books argument that Virginia and Kentucky found no support for their arguments in 1798. What he leaves out, of course, is that the vast bulk of the states that protested the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions expressly affirmed, in their very replies to those states, their own support of the Alien and Sedition Acts, which they considered perfectly constitutional! The fact that a bunch of states that were dead wrong objected to Virginia and Kentucky is supposed to make us rethink nullification? And within 10-15 years, many of these states, too, were speaking of the right of state interposition. In 1820 the Ohio legislature passed a resolution indicating its support for the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions, whose principles “have been recognized and adopted by a majority of the American people.”

Much, much more can be said against Levinson. But even the tiny bit I’ve said here, at least a portion of which you’d think an honest person might acknowledge, is absent from his article. You may hesitate to believe me — I mean, an establishment historian leaving out the relevant facts? — but it’s true.

 

[DapperDan]

University of Texas....

No surprise there.

 

[fedup100]

This is an Obamy plant and ignorant (*^%bitch. He is as credible as the global warming professors. Never mind though, the sheep saw it on the government controlled media, it has to be true.

Truth is, there is NO Constitution any longer.

Remember the illegal alien witch doctor in chief purportedly also taught the Constitution, yeah right.

 

[Matt Collins]

[url]http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/49805.html[/URL]

February 6, 2010
States Can’t Nullify, Because I Said So
Posted by Thomas Woods on February 6, 2010 07:04 PM

Tom is awesome. Thanks for posting this!

 

[undergroundrr]

It's great to see Debra Medina's candidacy drum up so much discussion about nullification and property taxation in Texas. Much like Ron Paul caused many establishment intellectuals to take up discussion of issues like central banking and letters of marque & reprisal.

When you visit this article, by the way, you might want to give thumbs up or down to individual comments. Some law nazis are thumbs-downing anything pro-nullification.