Tennessee joins States fighting against Federal Health Diktats
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‘Nullification is not revolt, all it is is ignoring: We’re taking a position that we are going to ignore this edict,’ said Tennessee state Rep. Bud Hulsey.
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4/25/2024
At a time when governments and global organizations are seeking additional powers to deal with pandemics or other catastrophes, a burgeoning effort is rising in opposition to defend local autonomy and personal liberties.
Next month, member nations of the World Health Organization (WHO) are gathering to grant the agency vast new powers during “health emergencies.”
Meanwhile, some state lawmakers are attempting to wrest back control of health issues to their states and their citizens. And although their success has been mixed, they say they’re in it for the long haul.
“We’re almost to a place in this country that the federal government has trampled on the sovereignty of states for so long that in peoples’ minds, they have no options,” Tennessee state Rep. Bud Hulsey told The Epoch Times.
“It’s like whatever the federal government says is the supreme law of the land, and it’s not,” he said. “The Constitution is the supreme law of the land.”
A series of Supreme Court decisions, perhaps most notably the 1984 ruling in Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council, have given ever-increasing power and autonomy to federal agencies to make laws, despite lawmaking authority being vested in Congress and state legislatures.
