Pete Hendrickson (@LostHorizons)

A Truly Remarkable And Very Important Document From Six State Attorneys General ...by which a line is drawn in the sand and much uplift of spirit and toughening of resolve is delivered. A FEW DAYS AGO THE EXCELLENT Adolfo Montero forwarded to me a letter signed by the Attorneys General of West Virginia, Arkansas, Indiana, Mississippi, Montana and Texas and addressed to Joe Biden. I was pretty astonished at what I read. The five-page letter amounts to a line-in-the-sand declaration by these state officials of their intention to exercise both their options of lawsuit and their options of nullification in the face of overreach by the Biden administration. More particularly (and gratifyingly), this line in the sand actually yanks the Constitutional chain hard, setting boundaries of actual delegated power limits, which are far more stringent and circumscribed than have been honored by denizens of Washington, DC for many, many years. These six state's Attorneys General aren't just telling Biden to stick within the scope of executive power and centralized governance practiced by Trump, or Obama, or Bush or Clinton. What they are saying is a whole lot closer to, "Stick within the scope recognized by Thomas Jefferson or Grover Cleveland" (or, at least, Eisenhower or Kennedy). And they say it well. Indeed, the remarkable demeanor of the letter by the Attorneys General is matched in noteworthiness by the letter's sharp, bright, articulate and accurate presentation of the Constitutional structure within which the office of President is exercised, and by which it is strictly limited. There are some things left unsaid in the letter which should have been addressed-- particularly matters concerning speech and privacy rights. The letter does focus on freedom of religion and the Second Amendment, but passes over the rest of the lately much-tattered Bill of Rights. And a bit too much acceptance of congressional abdication to administrative agency usurpation of legislative and judicial authority is on display (albeit while urging Biden to hold agencies firmly to the supposedly-mitigating requirements of the Administrative Procedure Act). But as a Constitutional scholar and longtime activist on behalf of the rule of law, I am accustomed to much frustration with documents of this sort and harbor generally low expectations of both the knowledge and the fidelity of people in political office in regard to the law at any level. In this case, even taking into account the caveats just mentioned, I found the Attorneys Genderals' letter a genuine pleasure to read. You will enjoy it, too. Read the letter at https://losthorizons.com/Newsletter/LetterToBiden.pdf. ALL OF THE POSITIVE OBSERVATIONS ABOVE NOTWITHSTANDING, several cautions must accompany this letter. Continued... https://losthorizons.com/N/132.htm#1