PhroX
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Republicans certainly do except when it disagrees with their views. But the only reason they do is because it allows them to pass their discriminatory laws on at least the state level when they can't do so on the national level.
And now that the so-called "leftists", which represent 20% of the population, have supposedly somehow made marijuana legal in a handful of states, they don't care for it one bit.
Yeah, the group that is now Republicans within US politics has always had an...interesting...relationship with "Sate's Rights". They love shouting about it from the rooftops, and in general they do favour it.....right up to the point at which it comes into conflict with something else they value. In which case "State's Rights" almost inevitably takes a back seat.
Even a century and a half ago it was like this. The South was all for "State's Rights", except when the right in question was that of Northern states to take actions that could potentially harm slavery. At which point, the South were perfectly happy to trample all over said rights (e.g. the Fugitive Slave Act).