You're downvoted but you're right. There are laws that protect the federation. If people really didn't want that, the laws would be abolished.
Not at all. 95% of people could be against the cartel and it would still be law unless it was such a priority that it would actually change votes, which is not going to happen for a small issue like this.
Similarly for laws like those preventing Tesla from opening retail stores in some states. Pretty much nobody except dealerships and their families are for those laws, but there's no incentive for a politician to change them since they would lose donation money and hardly gain any votes.