Andrew Jackson put that concept to bed 180 years ago.
The author notes:
“Andrew Jackson denounced nullification.”
“True, though Jackson was presumably not infallible. (Had nullification really been all about slavery, then Jackson, a slaveholder himself, should have supported it.) His proclamation concerning nullification was in fact written by his secretary of state, Edward Livingston, and that proclamation was, in turn, dismantled mercilessly by Littleton Waller Tazewell.”