[Blood of Tyrants]

The legislation would overturn a 1992 supreme court ruling that said a state could not force a retailer to collect sales tax unless the retailer had a physical presence in the state.

Does a law passed by Congress trump the Supreme Court?

[Tarheel25]

In this case yes since the ruling was geared toward state legislatures and not Congress. Only Congress has the authority to regulate interstate commerce and not the state legislatures.

[Valpal1]

Bad reporting...it doesn’t overturn the Quill decision, it complies with it.

The ignorance among reporters is endemic.

[Chaguito]

The bigger online retailers, Amazon at least, have marketing persons on the ground in various states. Sorry, I can’t give the exact terminology that describes these people, but they are the justification that Amazon has “physical presence” in California.