I sure hope she's not helping this kid with Social Studies homework.
It's really, really hard to imagine Iowa actually being willing to trade in Sen. Tom Harkin for
this.
State Sen. Joni Ernst, the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in Iowa, once said she would support legislation that would allow "local law enforcement to arrest federal officials attempting to implement" Obamacare.
Ernst voiced her support for that, as well as supporting legislation that would "nullify" Obamacare in a Iowa State Legislative Candidates survey for Ron Paul's libertarian-aligned Campaign for Liberty in 2012. It can be viewed here.
The question was: "Will you support legislation to nullify ObamaCare and authorize state and local law enforcement to arrest federal officials attempting to implement the unconstitutional health care scheme known as ObamaCare?" Ernst answered that question as "yes."
And, as TMP notes in this story, this
isn't the first time Ernst advocated for nullification. Last fall she told the Iowa Faith & Freedom Coalition that Congress should not pass any laws "that the states would consider nullifying."
It's maybe kind of a problem when you've got an actual state legislator who wants to be an actual federal legislator who doesn't know that nullification isn't something states can do. That's kind of like Civics 101 in the lawmaking business.
Nullifying Obamacare has been a bit of a pet project for the Kochs' Americans for Prosperity. When Ernst told the Kochs they created her, she wasn't kidding.
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