that was quite awhile ago ( without looking it up), now it's used as a pejorative, by 'statists' or ignorance by the George Wallace types."States Rights" was a movement based on one side of federalism. Look it up.
Obama HUD Plans To Use Federal Government To “Diversify” Rich NeighborhoodsNow, you might have a point about the housing issue, I don't know. I suspect that the States are not being told they MUST have Section 8 Housing, I suspect they are being told that in order to qualify for specific funding they must have Section 8 housing... its a significant difference.
https://theconservativetreehouse.co...l-government-to-diversify-rich-neighborhoods/
The regulations would use grant money as an incentive for communities to build affordable housing in more affluent areas while also taking steps to upgrade poorer areas with better schools, parks, libraries, grocery stores and transportation routes as part of a gentrification of those communities.
“HUD is working with communities across the country to fulfill the promise of equal opportunity for all,” a HUD spokeswoman said. “The proposed policy seeks to break down barriers to access to opportunity in communities supported by HUD funds.” […]
but the states were moving toward gay marriage /states had the historic purview of regulating marriageThe States are the Laboratories of Democracy in some circumstances, in others they are the bane of Democracy. Allowing the states to prohibit Marriage based on sexual identity of the partners is simply anti-freedom for individuals. It might be freedom for States, but not for the individual American Citizens. I prefer freedom for individuals and at times the Federal Government has been the only way to take that freedom when the States tried to block it.
so it's not true the states tried to " block gay marriage" the referendum process was simply truncated by the SCOTUS ruling
you're on more solid ground here. When the states prolong a discriminatory policy, or fail to follow Congress legislation - or fail to follow a court rulingIt was the Federal Government that said States cant make contraception illegal.
It was the Federal Government that said States cant segregate the races.
It was the Federal Government that said States cant block interracial marriage.
It was the Federal Government that said States cant get in-between women and their Doctors regarding medical decisions.
It was the Federal Government that said States cant prevent people from being married based on the gender identity of the partners.
then it is indeed right and proper for the feds to step in. But not just because some agency decides gender identity is part of Title iX
when Congress never intended that reading. That is executive over-reach as this was never found to be so by the courts.
if you move to a different state you might find different laws.Without the Federal Government in many parts of the United States these individual freedoms would have been usurped by the States. I for one want the Federal Government to continue to protect my individual freedoms. So if I move to Alabama or Texas or Virginia I want to have my individual freedoms. I want the freedom to buy Contraception no matter who gets elected governor of my State. It is Supreme Court Justices like the ones Donald Trump wants to nominate who would allow the States the "freedom" to take those individual freedoms away.
The fed's are not in business to create uniform law -they are there only to guarantee civil rights as you describe here.
Other wise the states run there own elections, etc.