Supreme Court to Decide Fate of Far-Left California Car Emission Standards, War on Cars
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In CA in the 70's and 80's, the smog was awful. Disgusting, even. The air today is much cleaner. I think CA did a good job championing state's rights to do it. (Obviously they did that without any EVs, because there weren't any.)
That said, the state gov't today is illegitimate, unresponsive to its citizens, and likely passing laws at China's request. Hopefully that will be revealed soon, and the state gov't will be removed and recent "laws" will be rolled back.
But there's two questions here: one is about how repugnant today's gov't of CA is. But the other is about how much rights does a state have. Removing states' power and centralizing it away to the feds is a big problem.
Its still part of the United states, bound by the constitution. Any policies/laws that infringes on civil rights/liberties must be removed at any cost even if it entitles feds involvement. I think there has to be a balance of power between the two. We can't have one state go rogue just because there is a devolution.
Classic example is the whole aiding and abetting illegal aliens.
Yeah, but there are examples going the other way too, like light bulbs (Feds want LED only, so Texas set up their own factories for incandescents) or marijuana (CA lady growing her own pot for her own use, never to be sold, but the feds won in court calling it interstate commerce) or the speed limit (no reason why Rhode Island should have the same limit as Montana, and each state can set their own rules).
Basically I think states have the right to do their own thing whenever the constitution is quiet (and it's not quiet on immigration or guns) but I'm hoping the feds can guarantee that the state stays honest. CA obviously fails the honesty test, which kills their right to be all self-important about stupid laws.
This is why, when game shows taped in L.A. offer cars as prizes, the rundown mentions "California emission."
California has far stricter laws about that than the rest of the country. I bet they're a pain.
"The original lawsuit in this case criticized California’s ability to regulate away all gasoline-powered vehicles by 2035."