Speaker, I would inject that it appears that Judge Orrick and
leaders in San Francisco must be deeply in need of a safe space where
they can go sit in the dark, suck their thumbs, hold their blankets,
and feel comforted somehow because of the illusions that they have
generated of all these bugaboos that are threatening in their wild
imaginations. Mr. McCarthy goes on:
``Sanctuary cities? Maybe we should call them snowflake cities.
``As noted above, there is a transparent agenda behind Orrick's
sleight of hand. The judge is keen to warn the President that, if ever
his administration were to deny funds to sanctuary cities, it would
violate the Constitution. It is in connection with this advisory
opinion that the judge makes the only point worthy of consideration--
albeit not in the case before him.
``Here, it is useful to recall the Supreme Court's first ObamaCare
ruling. While conservatives inveighed against Chief Justice Roberts'
upholding of the individual mandate, the decision had a silver lining:
The majority invalidated ObamaCare's Medicaid mandate, which required
the States, as a condition of qualifying for Federal Medicaid funding,
to enforce the Federal Government's generous new Medicaid
qualifications.
``In our system, the States are sovereign--the Federal Government may
not dictate to them in areas of traditional State regulation, nor may
it conscript them to enforce Federal law.
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