From Day One, Joe Biden has been demonstrating just how much of a dictator he truly is. Honestly, it seems worse than I had even thought.

The last count that I have seen is that Biden has signed 52 Executive Orders since being sworn in just three weeks ago. This is exactly what you’d expect from someone wishing to rule unilaterally.

One state isn’t taking this lying down. South Dakota Republicans have introduced a bill that would effectively nullify any Executive Order that Biden signs if it falls into a certain area that they deem to be unconstitutional.

State Rep. Aaron Aylward (R-Harrisburg) introduced HB 1194, which is described as an act “to authorize the review of certain executive orders issued by the President of the United States.”

The process to potentially nullify an executive order, which by nature bypasses congressional approval, “begins with a review by the Executive Council of the Legislative Research Board, followed by a referral from the Council to the attorney general and the governor,” South Dakota news station KELO-TV reported last week. “Once the referral has been made, the attorney general may examine the order to determine whether the state can seek an exemption or declare it unconstitutional.”

The bill specifies that Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg could exempt South Dakota from any law or order “that restricts a person’s rights or that is determined … to be unconstitutional” if the law or order relates to the following:

A pandemic or other public health emergency
The regulation of natural resources
The regulation of the agricultural industry
The regulation of land use
The regulation of the financial sector through the imposition of environmental, social, or governance standards, or
The regulation of the constitutional right to keep and bear arms

This is precisely what the states need to be doing. States forget how much power they actually have over the federal government to resist tyranny and this only trickles down to lower levels of government as well. It’s called the doctrine of the lesser magistrates and more states need to read up on it.

Sources:
Conservative Review