That is a matter for state lawmakers to decide, Aasheim said.
The fact that crime rates are still high, the comic says, is a matter for state and local governments.
Steenkamp's mother, June, said the appeal was a matter for state prosecutors rather than her family.
Some are embroiled in legal disputes which he will not be able to override; others are a matter for state governments.
He asserted federal power in an area that has always been pre-eminently a matter for state law, the regulation of medical practice.
Some of the biggest fights, for example, came on the platform's section on education, with conservatives resisting a strong federal role on what they argued should be a matter for state and local communities and families.
Mr. Bush, fearful of exacerbating the split in Republican ranks that Mr. Engler's stance has opened, has soft-pedaled his own backing for vouchers, describing them as a matter for state decisions.
When Barack Obama describes the deployment of the National Guard as a matter for state jurisdiction, a fellow named Tory, watching him on TV, asks, "Didn't he teach constitutional law in Harvard?
In Europe, legal actions are a matter for nation states.
