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Mr. O.H. Skinner praises Utah for stopping attempts to "weaponize" public nuisance to impose preferred policy goals:
"I think what was very hard for people to understand is that the left finds causes of action that can be used as weapons… What Utah did was basically preserve public nuisance. If you have a purely local problem within your jurisdiction, you can bring it with the AG's blessing — but you can't bring it over licensed, regulated, lawful products. So if it's about guns, no — that has a licensed, regulated, lawful structure built around it. Is it oil and gas? Nope — we've got a regulatory structure around that, you get licenses, it's lawful. If you want to bring it over anything else — plastic straws, sorry — that is a licensed, regulated, lawful product that has all kinds of different permits and things. You are not allowed to bring it over lawful stuff to control the economy."
Mr. O.H. Skinner praises Utah for stopping attempts to "weaponize" public nuisance to impose preferred policy goals:
"I think what was very hard for people to understand is that the left finds causes of action that can be used as weapons… What Utah did was basically preserve public nuisance. If you have a purely local problem within your jurisdiction, you can bring it with the AG's blessing — but you can't bring it over licensed, regulated, lawful products. So if it's about guns, no — that has a licensed, regulated, lawful structure built around it. Is it oil and gas? Nope — we've got a regulatory structure around that, you get licenses, it's lawful. If you want to bring it over anything else — plastic straws, sorry — that is a licensed, regulated, lawful product that has all kinds of different permits and things. You are not allowed to bring it over lawful stuff to control the economy."
![[LIVE] The National Popular Vote Compact: An End Run Around the Electoral College?](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/VfUVKZVtomM/mqdefault.jpg "[LIVE] The National Popular Vote Compact: An End Run Around the Electoral College?
This spring, Virginia joined eighteen other states and DC in the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, an agreement among participating jurisdictions to award their presidential electors to the winner of the national popular vote once they collectively hold 270 electoral votes. Virginias thirteen electoral votes bring the compact to 222, leaving it 48 short of the threshold at which it would take effect.
Is participation in the compact a legitimate exercise of state power under Article II, Section 2 of the Constitution, or does it require congressional consent under the Compact Clause or even a constitutional amendment under Article V? Join us for a discussion of Virginia’s entry, the constitutional arguments on both sides, and what the compact could mean for the future of the Electoral College.
Featuring:
• Chad Ennis, Vice President, Honest Elections Project
• Michael Williams, Solicitor General, West Virginia
• [Moderator] Hon. Allen J. Dickerson, Partner, BakerHostetler; Former Chairman, Federal Election Commission
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![This or That - National Student Symposium Edition [Ep.3]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/YDgxCtQdS8M/mqdefault.jpg "This or That - National Student Symposium Edition [Ep.3]
This or that? Student Symposium edition! 🤔
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