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The Obama administration announced in October 2009 that it advised federal prosecutors not to target legally-operating medicinal cannabis users, or their suppliers, in states that have passed such laws. [12] However, in the same year, the DEA conducted a record number of medical cannabis raids. [13]
The Constitution does not contain any clause expressly providing that the states have the power to declare federal laws unconstitutional. Supporters of nullification have argued that the states' power of nullification is inherent in the nature of the federal system. They have argued that before the Constitution was ratified, the states essentially were separate nation
National Foreign Trade Council, 530 U.S. 363 (2000), that even when a state law is not in direct conflict with a federal law, the state law could still be found unconstitutional under the Supremacy Clause if the "state law is an obstacle to the accomplishment and execution of Congress's full purposes and objectives". [30]
America’s deadliest war should have settled the question of whether states could defy federal law, be it in defense of slavery or stricter border laws. ... In last year’s exit polls, 83% of ...
In fact, only 31 pieces of legislation became law since Jan. 1, making this year one of the most ineffective in congressional history. And President Joe Biden signed eight of those bills into law ...
Since at least 1984, federal courts have deferred to certain agency interpretations of ambiguous federal laws. This framework — known as “Chevron deference,” because it largely grew out of ...
Therefore, State X's law protects its plaintiffs, and State Y's law protects its defendants - the laws serve opposite purposes, but each state has an interest in its own law being applied, to advance its own purposes. In such a case, if the interests are balanced, the law of the forum will prevail.
Other Southern states also passed laws against free black sailors. [35] Supreme Court Justice William Johnson, in his capacity as a circuit judge, declared the South Carolina law as unconstitutional since it violated the United States' treaties with the United Kingdom. The South Carolina Senate announced that the judge's ruling was invalid and ...