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 ...

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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 ...

The history of jury nullification is to some extent one of rebellion. As we discussed in an earlier column, the doctrine dates back to seventeenth-century England and has been exercised by juries ...

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 ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. In the 19th century, the theory of nullification, and the crisis it provoked, was all ...

Do state legislatures have the authority - the right - to nullify federal laws, as our own Missouri General Assembly appears poised to do? Last year, a majority of Missouri lawmakers enacted a statute ...

In theory, yes. But not in the world we actually live in, where law enforcement is already rife with numerous discretionary decisions made unavoidable by the fact that we have far too many laws. In a ...