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The records of the state ratifying conventions include over three dozen statements in more than half the states asserting that the federal courts would have the power to declare laws unconstitutional. [21] For example, Luther Martin's letter to the Maryland ratifying convention asserted that the power to declare laws unconstitutional could be ...
The bill would mandate action against what the state legislature perceives as unconstitutional federal legislation. During 2010, such legislation was introduced in six states (Florida, Georgia, Michigan, Missouri, New Hampshire, and Oklahoma); however, none made it past the introductory stage. [4]
A Texas judge ruled Wednesday that a new law eroding the power of the state's Democratic-led cities to impose local regulations on everything from tenant evictions to employee sick leave is ...
This was the first case in which the Supreme Court struck down a state law as unconstitutional. Martin v. Hunter's Lessee, 14 U.S. 304 (1816) Federal courts may review state court decisions when they rest on federal law or the federal Constitution. This decision provides for the uniform interpretation of federal law throughout the states ...
Florida is one of 25 states that enacted rules to curtail or ban gender-affirming care for transgender minors. Most of the laws now face legal challenges. Arkansas' ban was struck down as ...
The law threatened state and local officials with fines of up to $50,000 for knowingly enforcing federal gun laws considered by the state legislature to violate the amendment.
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]
A state judge knocked down two laws restricting abortion in Wyoming on Monday, ruling that they violated protections in the state's constitution that allow patients to determine the healthcare ...