Huckleberries Online continues to break down the Idaho Republican Party platform, plank by plank. So far, Hucks Nation has thoroughly disagreed with 2 planks presented. 95% opposed the GOP-backed repeal of the 17th Amendment (allowing voters rather than the Legislature to pick the state's U.S. senators). 79.5% (89 of 112 respondents) oppose the Idaho GOP-backed idea of abolishing the Federal Reserve & restoring the gold and silver standard. Marty Trillhaase/Lewiston Tribune provides fodder for today's GOP plank question:
Touching off a new Civil War by openly defying federal laws. Known as nullification, the concept has been repudiated by credible constitutional scholars, the U.S. Supreme Court and Attorney General Lawrence Wasden.
Question: Do you support the idea of nullification — that idea can choose to ignore federal laws?
D.F. Oliveria is a columnist and blogger for The Spokesman-Review. Huckleberries Online was judged the best 2008 Idaho newspaper blog by the Idaho Press Club. And the best 2007 news blog in the Pacific Northwest by the Society for Professional Journalist. Print Huckleberries is a past winner of the Herb Caen Memorial Column contest by the National Association of Newspaper Columnists. The Readership Institute of Northwestern University cited this blog as a good example of online community journalism.
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