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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]
WASHINGTON — The U.S. government will shut down this weekend unless Congress comes up with a plan and acts soon. Federal funding expires when the clock strikes 12:01 a.m. Saturday, and ...
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 ...
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
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 ...
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]
That same law empowers a president to withhold federal financial support from cities and states that thwart the law by ignoring detainer requests. It also includes the failure to honor outstanding ...
The 118th United States Congress, which began on January 3, 2023, and will end on January 3, 2025, has enacted 82 public laws and zero private laws. [1] [2]In contrast with previous Congresses, which generally enacted their first laws no later than January or February, the 118th Congress's first law was enacted on March 20. [3]