Thursday, March 18, 2021

Prof. Josh Blackman: Breaking: Ohio Challenges Constitutionality of American Rescue Plan Act (Updated)

 Josh Blackman reports on a lawsuit broght by the state of Ohio challenging the conditional spending provision of the stimulus bill.

 Money quote from Ohio's complaint

The Tax Mandate thus gives the States a choice: they can have either the badly needed federal funds or their sovereign authority to set state tax policy. But they cannot have both. In our current economic crisis, that is no choice at all. It is a metaphorical "gun to the head."

This is a Con Law I issue, but I post it for your information.

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