Polls show that the vast majority of Republicans feel that States Rights should be paramount (85% according to a Pew Research poll) unless of course a state makes a law Republicans don't like.
In a recent ruling by U.S. District Judge Joseph Tauro on the defense of marriage act (DOMA), Tauro stated the following opinion.
"The federal government, by enacting and enforcing DOMA, plainly encroaches upon the firmly entrenched province of the state, and in doing so, offends the Tenth Amendment,"
This apparently has Republicans up in arms even though the justification for this ruling is that marriage has always been an issue for the states to decide, which they support.
The recent Arizona law has Republicans claiming states rights yet when the Bush administration went after the California state law on Medical Marijuana Republicans were fine with it. These same people would also be for a repeal of the Washington law on assisted suicide on a federal level even though the citizens of the state decided it was OK.
This is a clear case of Repubocrisy where Republicans become complete hypocrites because while they are for states rights apparently the states only have the right to agree with Republicans.
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