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andsoitislast Thursday at 11:56 PM3 repliesview on HN

White House AI czar and Silicon Valley venture capitalist David Sacks elaborated on the rationale for the executive order in a post on X.

Sacks argued that this domain of “interstate commerce” was “the type of economic activity that the Framers of the Constitution intended to reserve for the federal government to regulate.”

At the Oval Office signing ceremony, Sacks said, "We have 50 states running in 50 different directions. It just doesn't make sense."


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mcdanlast Friday at 10:04 PM

So much for "states rights" and the "laboratories of democracy."

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jandrewrogerslast Friday at 10:42 PM

Wickard v Filburn rearing its ugly ahead again.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wickard_v._Filburn

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CPLXlast Friday at 10:47 PM

> Sacks argued that this domain of “interstate commerce” was “the type of economic activity that the Framers of the Constitution intended to reserve for the federal government to regulate.”

They did indeed. It’s explicitly delegated to congress which declined to pass a law like this.

The EO is just obviously null and void in the face of any relevant state law.