akuma587 said:
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. |
What I've been saying all along is that after the fact, congress has altered the law to change a court opinion. I am not talking about any opinion based on the US constitution, but altering a federal law to change the interpetaion of a previous federal law.
With regards to the States part, I was referring to when a state law or state constitution is in disagreement with a federal law. It would then go to federal court. Once again I was referring to congress could alter the federal law in question to change the court opinion. You're reading far too much into what I'm saying.
Yet, today, America's leaders are reenacting every folly that brought these great powers [Russia, Germany, and Japan] to ruin -- from arrogance and hubris, to assertions of global hegemony, to imperial overstretch, to trumpeting new 'crusades,' to handing out war guarantees to regions and countries where Americans have never fought before. We are piling up the kind of commitments that produced the greatest disasters of the twentieth century.
— Pat Buchanan – A Republic, Not an Empire







