The Oklahoma House of Representatives has passed a bill that seeks to counter Biden‘s executive orders.
Since taking office, Biden has signed numerous executive orders on far-left issues.
The bill, code-named HB 1236, allows the state legislature to review each of Biden’s executive orders and decide whether to refer Biden’s executive orders to the state attorney general. Under the bill, the state attorney general would be able to determine whether the Biden executive order violates the federal constitution.
If the state attorney general finds that the Biden executive order is unconstitutional, then the state attorney general will file a lawsuit in court asking the court to invalidate Biden’s order.
If the state attorney general does not act, the state legislature could, by majority vote, find the Biden executive order unconstitutional.
What would happen in such a case? We don’t know. Perhaps the state attorney general would have to take action to prosecute Biden’s executive order, or perhaps the state would simply ignore Biden’s executive order and pretend it doesn’t exist. The ball would then be kicked back to the federal government, which would file a lawsuit in court to have the Oklahoma government enforce the president’s executive order.
Oklahoma State Capitol
The bill passed by the House of Representatives in the state legislature reads
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the state, county, political subdivision or any other publicly funded organization shall not implement any action that restricts a person’s rights or that the Office of the Attorney General or the Legislature by a majority vote determines to be unconstitutional.
Translated, this means that notwithstanding any other provision of law, the state, counties, and other political or publicly funded organizations shall not implement any action that restricts a person’s rights or that the Office of the Attorney General or the Legislature by a majority vote determines to be unconstitutional.
The state legislature’s official website makes it clear that the bill is to review presidential executive orders and other actions of the federal government.
Executive orders are not laws, after all, and if they are federal laws, then they have to be enforced first. But, ultimately, the only one who has the authority to interpret the Constitution is the judiciary. And neither the state Attorney General nor the state legislature is a judicial body.
Therefore, Oklahoma’s bill is only a stopgap measure, under this bill, the final decision must be made by the judiciary, the Oklahoma government can temporarily shelve Biden’s executive order. But better than nothing, something is better than nothing.
What we can be sure of is that all of Biden’s orders will be reviewed in Oklahoma, and many of them will face judicial battles. Either Oklahoma will sue the feds or the feds will sue Oklahoma.
Oklahoma Senate Floor
Oklahoma’s bill served its purpose when the court upheld Oklahoma’s position and took credit for it.
The bill passed the Oklahoma House of Representatives by a vote of 79 to 18, but it has not yet been voted on in the state Senate.
The Oklahoma House has 77 Republicans, 23 Democrats and no third-party or independent members. The fact that 79 people supported the bill means that at least two Democrats also supported the bill.
Note that some of the names have the letters D, R, etc. after them. This is not a reference to their party affiliation, but rather to people with the same last name, who need to be distinguished by their first names
In the Oklahoma State Senate, there are 38 Republicans and 9 Democrats. So it’s only logical that this bill would pass the state Senate and eventually be signed into state law by the governor.
Take a look at the comments of some Americans.
Libtardologist writes: Great, thank you, Oklahoma. Let’s despise Biden every day.
Tmac20 wrote: Oklahoma is my Home state and I’m proud of it and I wish other states, like Texas, would do the same.
ConservativeToTheCore wrote: Remember, all powers, only those not explicitly granted to the Union, are reserved for the states and the people to exercise, and only a few have been granted to the Union. But the feds have grabbed too much power over the years, and that has to stop, now!
CC1 wrote: In my home state, not a single county voted for Biden.
DerKrieger offers a better solution when he writes: Is this the state’s solution? It’s not, but there is a solution. A total of 23 states are fully controlled by the Republican Party (meaning the governor and both houses of the state legislature are Republican, author’s note), so those 23 states should form a Tenth Amendment coalition (what the Tenth Amendment is, as ConservativeToTheCore says above, author’s note) to stop the Democrats. The states are not obligated to enforce or comply with unconstitutional federal laws and presidential decrees, but they are obligated to reject them. The states are not the executive arm of the “central government” and this must stop. Republican states, united, have tremendous energy, and the Republican Party needs to use that energy.
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