Earlier this month, while defending the Department of Justice’s recent lawsuit against California, Attorney General Jeff Sessions accused the state of attempting to nullify federal immigration law. In ...

The Doctrine of Nullification is the assertion that any state government which doesn’t like a federal law is free to violate it. It began with tariff disputes and formed the central legal argument the ...

Historical amnesia is as dangerously disorienting for a nation as for an individual. So it is with the current wave of enthusiasm for “states’ rights,” “interposition,” and “nullification”—the claim ...

In mid-April, Kansas passed a law asserting that federal gun regulations do not apply to guns made and owned in Kansas. Under the law, Kansans could manufacture and sell semi-automatic weapons ...

This book is the outgrowth of an invitation by Mark Killenbeck to deliver a lecture at the University of Arkansas Law School in September 2013, which was published in theArkansas Law Reviewand is ...