{"id":15892,"date":"2016-07-14T02:03:41","date_gmt":"2016-07-14T02:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=15892"},"modified":"2016-07-14T02:03:41","modified_gmt":"2016-07-14T02:03:41","slug":"small-government-conservatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=15892","title":{"rendered":"Small-government conservatives?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I’ve already commented on a bill authored by U.S. Sen. John Cornyn that would federalize the crime of killing a police officer.<\/p>\n

I’m against it. States that have the death penalty — such as Texas (Boy, howdy! Do we ever!)<\/em> — already make cop-killing a capital punishment offense.<\/p>\n

Cornyn’s bill is a reaction to the deaths of the five police officers in Dallas this past week.<\/p>\n

A friend of mine reminds me, though, that he opposes Cornyn’s legislation, too, for another reason. It flies in the face of conservatives’ usual mantra that calls for “limited federal government.”<\/p>\n

He wonders why GOP lawmakers react with this expansion of federal authority.<\/p>\n

I think I know. They do it because it’s politically popular. Quite naturally, Democrats do the same thing when the issue suits their philosophical bent.<\/p>\n

In this case, Americans are outraged over the officers’ death. So, in swoops Sen. Cornyn — a true-blue GOP conservative — to propose a bill that deals directly with that outrage. He wants to add another federal law to the books.<\/p>\n

But what has happened, though, to the conservative view that less federal authority is better for everyone?<\/p>\n\n

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I’ve already commented on a bill authored by U.S. Sen. John Cornyn that would federalize the crime of killing a police officer. I’m against it. States that have the death penalty — such as Texas (Boy, howdy! Do we ever!) — already make cop-killing a capital punishment offense. Cornyn’s bill is a reaction to the … Continue reading Small-government conservatives?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1134,6400,1941,2526,6416],"class_list":["post-15892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-news","tag-conservatives","tag-dallas-shooting","tag-gop","tag-john-cornyn","tag-small-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15892"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15895,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15892\/revisions\/15895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}