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Re:Uber Drivers Are Contractors, Not Employees, Labor Board ... by hermitdev on Tuesday May 14, 2019 @10:33PM (#19915923)
Congress is actually very limitted in the areas it can supercede stare or local law. The courts and congress, on the other hand, have often decided to ignore those points of the constitution.
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Re:Uber Drivers Are Contractors, Not Employees, Labor Board ... by JumpCrisscross on Tuesday May 14, 2019 @10:41PM (#19915967)
> courts and congress, on the other hand, have often decided to ignore those points of the constitution

Saying the Interstate Commerce cases ignore the Constitution is reductive. Many IC-buttresssd laws involve carrots, e.g. highway funds. In other cases, single-state violators are perfectly legal. They just don’t make economy sense in a connection national economy.

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