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Daddy_Thick t1_jdl5zmc wrote

Reply to comment by MRmandato in Washington Supreme Court upholds new capital gains tax by Bozzooo

“This is not a federal constitutional issue” Words that many have eaten time and time again.

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MRmandato t1_jdl72c8 wrote

No, the question is whether this violates the WA State constitution. SCOTUS is not an expert on state constitutions; the only angle is if the platiniffs case was the WA state constitution was itself violating the US constitution. But that still wouldnt help in this case because all they could do is throw out the WA constitutional provision entirely and that wouldnt help the plaintiffs.

Tldr: even according to the plaintiffs theres no federal issue here and SCOTUS has no standing

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