2024 OK Legislative Scorecard

SB426 establishes that the World Health Organization, the United Nations, and the World Economic Forum have no jurisdiction in the state of Oklahoma.

The House passed SB426 on May 30, 2024, by a vote of 74 to 19. We have assigned pluses to the yeas because the United States should fully withdraw from the entire United Nations system, which is comprised of not only “specialized agencies,” such as the World Health Organization, but “strategic partners,” like the World Economic Forum. The UN poses one of the greatest threats to state and national sovereignty, not to mention the God-given rights of the American people. Since 1945, the UN Charter, which is completely antithetical to the U.S. Constitution, has established an international framework for expanding global governance, with the ultimate goal of building a totalitarian one-world state. Oklahomans must reject the “zeitgeist” of globalism and call on Congress and the President to pursue a sound, just, and traditional foreign policy of non-interventionism, based on U.S. interests and the original intent of the Founding Fathers. It’s time to Get US Out! of the UN.

HB4156 makes illegal migration a state crime punishable by fine and/or imprisonment and requires any person convicted or released from custody to leave Oklahoma within 72 hours. 

The House passed HB4156 on April 18, 2024, by a vote of 77 to 20. We have assigned pluses to the yeas because persons who enter the United States illegally—which, by definition, is a crime under federal law—should not be permitted sanctuary in Oklahoma, let alone be aided and abetted by state or local law enforcement officials. Article I, Section 8, of the U.S. Constitution clearly gives Congress power to “establish a uniform Rule of Naturalization.” Rather than pursue blatantly unconstitutional and anti-American policies that undermine the rule of law and erode the value of citizenship, each of the several States should exercise its sovereign powers under the 10th Amendment to end the illegal-migrant invasion and provide for the public safety. 

SJR34 (House Committee Substitute) would, if approved by voters, amend the Oklahoma Constitution by granting the Governor the power to nominate and appoint all judicial officers with the advice and consent of the Legislature.

The House failed to pass SJR34 on April 16, 2024, by a vote of 36 to 60. We have assigned pluses to the yeas because the 15-member Judicial Nominating Commission, which includes six publicly unelected members of the Oklahoma Bar Association, functions as a nepotic scheme to circumvent representative government “of, by, and for the people.” Article IV, Section 4, of the U.S. Constitution guarantees “to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government,” meaning government limited to the “rule of law,” with a separation of powers among members of the legislative, executive, and judicial branches, each of whom derives their authority from the people. Yet, Oklahoma’s judicial system is only as good as it applies “the supreme Law of the Land.” Our federal system of checks and balances was designed so that no person may legitimately be appointed to any non-elected public office apart from having been nominated in good faith by, or confirmed with the consent of, at least one of the elected bodies of government.

HB3323 would exclude a Central Bank Digital Currency from the definition of “money.”

The House passed HB3323 on March 12, 2024, by a vote of 55 to 41. We have assigned pluses to the yeas because a Central Bank Digital Currency would be an unconstitutional and intolerable expansion of tyranny under the Federal Reserve—presenting a significant danger to Americans’ civil liberties by decimating personal privacy and allowing for a full-fledged surveillance state. According to Article 1, Section 10, of the U.S. Constitution, “No State shall…make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts.” The States can and must act now to avow their adherence to constitutionally sound money.

  HB2643 (House Committee Substitute) would have affirmed that firearms manufactured, sold, and purchased in Oklahoma are not subject to federal law or regulation. The House passed HB2643 on March 21, 2023, by a vote of 72 to 21. We have assigned pluses to the yeas because this bill would have prevented government entities from enforcing unconstitutional federal gun control edicts, helping to restore the rights of law-abiding citizens. The U.S. Constitution’s Second Amendment expressly declares that to ensure the “security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” Whenever the federal government assumes power to impose firearms restrictions in blatant violation of the Bill of Rights and the 14th Amendment, nullification of such acts by the States is the proper remedy.