{"id":49015,"date":"2014-12-18T14:29:37","date_gmt":"2014-12-18T21:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/12\/18\/nebraska-and-oklahoma-try-to-harsh-colorados-mellow.html"},"modified":"2014-12-18T14:29:37","modified_gmt":"2014-12-18T21:29:37","slug":"nebraska-and-oklahoma-try-to-harsh-colorados-mellow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/12\/18\/nebraska-and-oklahoma-try-to-harsh-colorados-mellow.html","title":{"rendered":"Nebraska and Oklahoma try to harsh Colorado's mellow"},"content":{"rendered":"

Those two states are asking the Supreme Court to overthrow Colorado's law (passed by referendum) legalizing recreational marijuana use, as being in conflict with federal law.<\/p>\n

It's amusing to see a pair of conservative "states rights" states asking SCOTUS to use the supremacy clause to overthrow a state law based on a federal law itself justified by what conservatives would consider an expansive interpretation of the commerce clause.<\/p>\n

That last bit may be why they are suing Colorado rather than suing the Feds to uphold the existing law.<\/p>\n

Originally shared by +The Denver Post<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

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BREAKING: Nebraska and Oklahoma sue Colorado over marijuana legalization<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nNebraska and Oklahoma sue Colorado over marijuana legalization<\/a><\/span>
\nNebraska and Oklahoma ask U.S. Supreme Court to halt marijuana legalization in Colorado\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Those two states are asking the Supreme Court to overthrow Colorado's law (passed by referendum) legalizing recreational marijuana use, as being in conflict with federal law. It's amusing to see a pair of conservative "states rights" states asking SCOTUS to use the supremacy clause to overthrow a state law based on a federal law itself … Continue reading “Nebraska and Oklahoma try to harsh Colorado's mellow”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":134043,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/08\/05\/sessons-picks-away-at-states-with-legalized-marijuana.html","url_meta":{"origin":49015,"position":0},"title":"Sessons picks away at states with legalized marijuana","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 5-Aug-17 4:44pm","format":false,"excerpt":"AG Jeff Sessions' passion against legalized pot (recreational or medicinal) is well documented. 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