States can push back on federal overreach
Natelson ’21 [Rob Natelson is the Independence Institute’s Senior Fellow in Constitutional Jurisprudence and heads the Institute’s Article V Information Center. He was a law professor for 25 years, serving at three different universities. He is also the Senior Fellow in Constitutional Jurisprudence at the Montana Policy Institute, 3/15/21, https://www.theepochtimes.com/how-states-should-and-should-not-push-back-against-the-biden-administration_3732797.html, ‘How states should push back against the Biden administration’, Epoch Times] A.J.
Cooperation Through Interstate Compacts The states enter into interstate compacts (i.e., contracts) to administer a of services, such as infrastructure, water allocation, environmental protection, natural resource conservation, and interstate parks. An illustration is the Palisades Interstate Park Compact (), entered into between New York and New Jersey to administer a sprawling and beautiful park in the Hudson River Valley. In theory, states can use compacts to “interpose” against federal power. As just noted, for example, the Western water compacts were adopted to forestall federal interference. Similarly, a group of states might enter a compact pledging that none of them will allow state employees to enforce an overreaching federal law.