Mississippi bill aims to ‘neutralize’ some federal laws and protect...

Two legislators in Mississippi are tired of what they claim is the federal government’s overreach on states’ rights — and want to take legislative action to stop it.

House Bill 490 seeks to nullify federal laws “outside the scope of the powers delegated by the people to the federal government in the United States Constitution” and that the state repudiates “this unauthorized and excessive abuse of power,” reported the Clarion-Ledger.

The bill, if passed, would create a committee to look at federal laws and executive orders and decide which constitute overreach and should be “neutralized.”

It’s not a new idea. In the 1950s, after the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision that desegregated public schools, Mississippi created the Sovereignty Commission in order to do anything “deemed necessary” to protect the state from “encroachment” by the federal government. It turned into a spying organization that promoted segregation.

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