Many Americans like or trust their state officials, and their state supreme and inferior court judges, as little or less than their federal ones, often for very good reasons, but also for bad ones as well, and have often clamored for local home rule, usually at local, often partisan, political instigation, by county, city, or whatever. The varieties of these initiatives are legion.
In doing so, they often forget, for a moment, that they like or trust these local mandarins even less than the state government ones in the 50 differing state capitols.
Why not make abortion rights, or even carry laws as they once were, a local home rule issue, now that responsibility has devolved back to individual states for abortion!
That is the really fun part of American exceptionalism. The welter of minorities and single interest folks of all stripes and polka dots finds that no government, at any level, is genuinely and responsively congenial to their respective weird plumes and feathers of peculiarities and ever changing and progressing preferences.
The beauty of this is, however, that you get the bonus of often grass roots direct democracy, with locally elected judges making decisions about abortion matters, at least in the first instance, at the local courthouse, and local news media, level!
What a great load of great local democracy separation of powers litigation fun!
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