Moore signed onto a resolution in 2010 affirming the right of states to nullify, or void, federal law. The 2010 resolution is Moore's most explicit affirmation of nullification, a theory with a long ...
NASHVILLE — An effort by two Republican lawmakers to proceed with a "nullification" bill based on a historically unsuccessful theory that individual states can invalidate federal laws or judicial ...
Sixty-seven members of the Louisiana House and 27 state senators have embarrassed themselves and the state by adopting a loony-radical resolution saying the state has “the sovereign right” to “nullify ...
Can a country’s citizens nullify the criminal cases that a popular leader faces by handing them an electoral victory in the general elections? This question raises issues that could prove pivotal to ...
A number of states, including Missouri, Kansas, and Alaska either have passed or are considering state laws intended to invalidate federal statutes, most notably, federal gun laws. Many have modeled ...
COLUMBIA — The message was pretty simple. It was written in all-capitalized white letters on blue shirts: "NULLIFY." About 50 people, many of them wearing those shirts, gathered in the S.C. Statehouse ...
President Biden’s proclamation of pardon for those convicted of certain marijuana offenses encroaches on Congress’s constitutional lawmaking authority and fundamentally alters the balance of power ...
Opponents of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), or ObamaCare, are trying many options to defeat its implementation, and a handful of Idaho legislators are hoping their state will ...
Former federal prosecutor Jeffrey Toobin scoffed at the idea that jury nullification could play a role in Donald Trump’s New York criminal, thus thwarting a conviction of the former president. Jury ...