> I'd be surprised if there weren't a fight from the feds about ceding this amount of power to a state.
Huh? No federal power would be ceded: this would be, were it to pass, the State allocating power that is already the State’s in a different manner than it has previously
OTOH, there are some federal issues raised; many of the things corporations might salivating over using their new public powers for would likely raise 14th Amendment issues, and the lack of an superficial arm's length relationship between government and the private actor might make it harder to deny the improper purpose than it is in the case where officials are merely covertly in the pocket of private interests.
Huh? No federal power would be ceded: this would be, were it to pass, the State allocating power that is already the State’s in a different manner than it has previously
OTOH, there are some federal issues raised; many of the things corporations might salivating over using their new public powers for would likely raise 14th Amendment issues, and the lack of an superficial arm's length relationship between government and the private actor might make it harder to deny the improper purpose than it is in the case where officials are merely covertly in the pocket of private interests.