Texans Die from Heat Exhaustion After Governor Bans Water Breaks - eviltoast

House Bill 2127 pre-empts municipalities from enacting legislation in eight areas—with predictable results.

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    1 year ago

    Federal interference in state law is a big thing to avoid. The federal government needs standing to try and interfere. These are all state level powers. Federal government can’t step in until it violates federal statutes which can only cover specific things. The thing that is shocking to me is that it’s antithetical to conservatism. A core principle is allowing the power to be as close to the people as possible. To micromanage local governments like this is just the Republicans coming out and saying they don’t actually believe in small government anymore. They believe in only their own power.

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        1 year ago

        The article has a quote saying it doesn’t remove anything in place by OSHA. I’m guessing OSHA wasn’t as forgiving as some of the local ordinances felt was necessary.

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          Weird, I totally missed that part of the article. I know it’s early, but I didn’t realize I was that tired. I’m going back to re-read now. Thanks.