Meanwhile, Republicans Want States to Have Immunity from Federal Law

North Carolina is quickly proving itself as incomprehensibly stupid as its sister state to the immediate south.

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apparently they have heard of the First Amendment but are not familiar with Article VI of the US Constitution, which in part reads:

"The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States."

This idea was (formally) introduced in 1798 by Thomas Jefferson in the Kentucky Resolution, and you would think that that after the Nullification Crisis thirty-odd years later and the freakin' Civil War, that the whole concept would have been put to rest. But noooope. It's actually ridiculous there are still politicians arguing these outdated views of states' rights.

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