Tyrannical said:
Akuma, why don't you re-read what I originaly did write? I have no idea what you think I meant to go off on the tangent you did. I was referring to congress changing court precident by passing a new law when the president was not based on the Constitution. I know the Federal government can't pass any laws it wants too. But thanks to FDR, what little it can't directly force onto the states by federal law, it can through court sanctioned blackmail. That's how the US got it's uniform 21 drinking age, because the states would loose federal funding. The States are supposed to fund the Federal government, not the other way around, but the introduction of federal income tax law changed all that. |
A federal court's interpretation of state law or a state constitution doesn't even involve Congress. That state's Supreme Court or that state's legislature is the one with the authority to do something about it. Congress doesn't have any say in the matter.
Furthermore, the Supreme Court doesn't even bother with state law unless it is deciding whether or not it is constitutional. Federal courts deal with it just because they have to. A state's legislature and a state Supreme Court are the ultimate interpreters of their own law, not Congress.
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