The left keeps pushing and pushing. And then pushing some more. It's confident that it won't see any real pushback.
Its latest bright idea is for sanctuary cities and states (currently being illegally protected by a judge who believes that there is no such thing as the First Amendment but that harboring illegal aliens is a Constitutional right) to boycott companies that bid on the border wall.
On Tuesday, Santa Cruz City Council unanimously denounced a presidential order to build a wall along the Mexican border, voting to not invest in companies involved with its construction.
This bright idea is going statewide.
California politicians attempting to stop Donald Trump’s border wall brought the fight to San Diego on Thursday, but the business bans they are proposing could lead to legal challenges.
State Sen. Ricardo Lara, D-Bell Gardens, and Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher, D-San Diego, held a press conference with supporters on the steps of the Edward J. Schwartz Federal Building in downtown San Diego to promote legislation they’ve crafted to punish businesses that work on the border wall.
Lara has introduced Senate Bill 30 that would prevent the state from doing business with any company — or person — that works on the border wall. Gonzalez Fletcher has co-sponsored a bill, called the Resist the Wall Act, that would require California’s pension funds to divest from companies that work on the wall between the U.S. and Mexico.
Because California's pension funds aren't enough of a disaster. Yet.
Roughly 460 companies replied to requests for proposals to build the wall, including 23 in San Diego County. A decision is expected by June 1, and prototype construction in Otay Mesa is expected to start that month.
Seth Kaplowitz, an attorney and lecturer on business law at San Diego State University, said Lara’s legislation is possibly unconstitutional.
He said the proposed law could violate the U.S. Constitution’s equal protection clause, which prevents states from depriving citizens of equal protection under the law.
But we have a whole bunch of Federal judges who have decided that the Constitution doesn't matter.
But Republicans currently control the White House, Congress and quite a few states. Suppose they began sanctioning companies that work on projects that they oppose. Like socialized medicine? For that matter, what if under Obama, Republicans had made it clear that any company participating in any way on the data side of ObamaCare wouldn't see a Federal contract under them?
Does the left really want to start playing that game?
Yes, I'm sure that Federal judges, the same ones who would rule that California's actions are legal, would decide that conservatives doing the same exact thing would be breaking the law. But then again that confrontation is coming anyway.
The left's secondary boycott would wreak havoc among Federal contractors. It would be an interesting disaster with right and left both defining industries that are off limits and penalizing companies that work on particular programs.
That would be the next step. Is the left ready for it? Are Democrats ready for it?