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• A Step in the Right Direction?

  
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  In the barren wasteland of anti-nullification rhetoric, little sprouts of life occasionally spring up, providing hope for those of us who believe federal power should remain limited. Sometimes, support for state action to block unconstitutional acts springs up in the most unlikely of places. Take this gem from a ...
  3 days ago

• Absolute Federal Supremacy: A Crackpot Post-Antebellum Theory

  
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  Authors note : The following is a response to an op-ed by US News opinion editor Robert Schlesinger. To his credit, he published a shortened version as a letter to the editor. The published version had to be cut quite a bit to meet their space requirements. Following is the original uncut response. If James ...
  1 week ago

• Nullification Today

  
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  As the federal government lurches further out of control, wildly grasping to increase control over our lives, an old and controversial method of reining in our central government gains popularity: State nullification of federal law. A recent Rasmussen survey asked whether “states have the right to block any ...
  2 weeks ago

• Colorado House Votes to Nullify Federal Law Against Hemp Cultivation

  
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  Colorado’s lawmakers are voting in favor of common sense. Via Tenth Amendment Center : The Colorado state house today voted to approve SB13-241, a bill that would legalize the farming and production of “industrial hemp” within the state.  If signed into law, the bill would effectively nullify the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Rasmussen Poll: Nullification Goes Mainstream

  
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  Day after day, the media pounds out a relentless drumbeat against nullification. Pundits, commentators and so-called legal experts demonize it as unconstitutional, villainize it as racist and trivialize it with slurs like “wacky” and “kookie.” But while the political class continues to arrogantly ridicule ...
  2 weeks ago

• Nullification: States overruling feds on guns, marijuana, Obamacare

  
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  Credit: State of Wyoming Increasing numbers of states are passing laws negating, ignoring, and directly confronting federal laws. Nullification isn’t just a right-wing movement, because it’s also coming from the left on marijuana. Kansas passed a law in April saying federal gun laws do not apply to guns ...
  2 weeks ago

• NJWeedman Launches His Jury Nullification Tour May 8th In Washington State

  
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  NJWeedman Launches his Jury Nullification Tour in Washington State During Protest March to Support the “Bellingham Cannabis 3″ on May 8 When Martin Nickerson opened Northern Cross Collective Gardens (NCCG), a medical marijuana collective garden, he had the health and well-being of his patients in mind. Operating ...
  2 weeks ago

• Nullification: How states are making it a felony to enforce federal gun laws

  
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  Though the Supreme Court rejected nullification after Southern states tried to use it to avoid desegregating public schools, the concept is now being deployed by gun rights advocates -- and not just in the South. read more
  2 weeks ago

• Kansas to Prosecute Federal Agents Who Enforce Federal Gun Control Laws

  
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  Kansas to Prosecute Federal Agents Who Enforce Federal Gun Control Laws
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• Obama’s and Holder’s Selective Constitutional Deafness

  
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  By Selwyn Duke Often a phenomenon of bad marriages, “selective deafness” iswhen one hears only what is convenient. The same failing manifests itself in governmentwhen politicians and judges hear the Constitution talk only when it sings theirtune. Worse still, sometimes these people behave as if the document says ...
  2 weeks ago

• Swatting at Flies

  
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  Have you ever had that experience of swatting an annoying fly only to have it get back up, dazed and confused, and come back around for another smackdown? That’s the life of your typical advocate of nullification. It seems that no matter how many times you swat down the same argument, it pops right back up, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Fight Brewing Between Eric Holder And Kansas Over Gun Nullification Law

  
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  The irony is delicious: top cop Eric Holder, who ignored US and Mexican law when agencies under his control walked high powered weapons of war (to use the Left’s terminology) across the border into Mexico, without bothering to inform the government of Mexico as to Operation Fast and Furious, but is now upset that ...
  2 weeks ago

• Texas Firearm Protection Act (HB 1076)

  
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  One of the more exciting gun bills in the Texas Legislature is  HB 1076, The Texas Firearm Protection Act .  It makes it a crime to to enforce Federal law if that law does not exist as a Texas law.  This is a nullification bill.  It attempts to nullify overreaching federal power and attempts to balance the power ...
  2 weeks ago

• Kansas new law to nullify federal gun controls faces challenges, asks for original interpretation of Constitution & Bill of Rights

  
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  My take is that the people who wrote the US Constitution and who voted for the Bill of Rights would support Kansas new law.  It seems very clear that in that sense Kansas is in the right.  The problem is that in the past the US Supreme Court has ignored the 9th and 10th Amendments to the Constitution and have so ...
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• Brownback pushes back!

  
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  Yesterday I opined that I could hardly wait to see what would happen following Eric Holder ’s letter to Kansas Governor Sam Brownback over the new Kansas law nullifying federal attempts at gun control in Kansas. I didn’t have to wait long! Here is Brownback’s response Continue reading Brownback pushes ...
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• Kansas Wants to Ignore Federal Gun Laws

  
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  Nullification: How States Are Making It a Felony to Enforce Federal Gun Laws by Lois Beckett, ProPublica 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 in-state without a ...
  2 weeks ago

• Stepping back on Syrian chemical weapons claims?

  
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  Shorter Question Everything Just degraded? Or wasn’t much to go on in the first place and it’s easier to just climb down and try again when you think you can get it through? I don’t think for one second that Syria’s Assad is a saint, but this isn’t the first time the UK has cooked up information in the ...
  2 weeks ago

• State Nullification: The Moment of Truth

  
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  Professor Tom Woods wrote Nullification: How to Resist Federal Tyranny in the 21st Century  back in June 2010 which got a lot of attention – a lot of it favorable, some not so – because it spelled out the constitutional protections against an overreaching federal government . Some folks in Kansas decided ...
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• South Carolina House Passes Bill Criminalizing Enforcement of ObamaCare

  
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  weaselzippers: South Carolina House Passes Bill Criminalizing Enforcement of ObamaCare The countdown to Tingles declaring the state of South Carolina racist has begun. Via  Raw Story : The South Carolina state House on Wednesday passed a so-called “nullification” bill that is ...
  2 weeks ago

• Meet an Enforcer of Approved Opinion

  
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  To be attacked by a Gore Vidal, or an H.L. Mencken, one of the great wordsmiths of American criticism, while surely unpleasant, must have been oddly exhilarating for the poor souls on the receiving end. I, on the other hand, have the more dubious and prosaic distinction of being a regular target of Ian Millhiser. So ...
  3 weeks ago

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