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Malik Evans: “The 10th Amendment gives us the right to control our local…”

Featuring: Malik Evans, Democratic | Mayor of Rochester, New York

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S1E4: Talking with the Mayor

Published | Video Starts at 35:48

The other thing that's happening, what Rochester's being sued for, is a policy that we've had that's been on the books since I was six years old, 1986. Been on the policy since 1986. And all it says is, is that The 10th Amendment gives us the right to control our local affairs. And the federal government has no business telling us how to control our affairs. And just like I can't tell the federal government how to use nuclear weapons or how to, how to do it, how to dole out federal resources. (35:48–35:53)

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Asserts that the 10th Amendment provides rights for local control.

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