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Re: Oregon Ruling Marks 13th Straight Gay Marriage Win
States have that power under the 10th, not the feds. The Public Accommodation laws are federal. The PA law is not constitutional federally and must be adopted state by state to become constitutional. I don't believe they've met that bar, ever. So any use of the commerce clause in their regard is a non-starter.
You have my apologies, the screen had rolled up. Sorry about that.
I'm sorry, don't state have the power to regulate in-state commerce under the 10th Amendment when such laws have general applicability?
Have not Public Accommodation laws existed for centuries (even going back to common law and the "inn keepers rule" (cited in Heartland of Atlanta Hotel v. United States) and have they not been upheld at the federal level buy the SCOTUS and at the State level by State Supreme Courts?
What part of what I said, specifically speaking, was inaccurate?
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States have that power under the 10th, not the feds. The Public Accommodation laws are federal. The PA law is not constitutional federally and must be adopted state by state to become constitutional. I don't believe they've met that bar, ever. So any use of the commerce clause in their regard is a non-starter.