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To: Dick Bachert

Cooper vs. Aaron held that states may not nullify federal law.

That makes the point wrong.

Nullification by states can not be legally accomplished. It could be illegally accomplished, by permissive or abusive prosecutorial discretion, or revolution.


10 posted on 09/16/2013 1:01:35 PM PDT by donmeaker (Youth is wasted on the young.)
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To: donmeaker
Nullification by states can not be legally accomplished. It could be illegally accomplished, by permissive or abusive prosecutorial discretion, or revolution.

Except that Jefferson and Madison did nullify a federal law in Kentucky and Virginia, the Alien and Sedition Acts.

30 posted on 09/16/2013 1:35:09 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (My faith and politics cannot be separated)
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