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We are hardly talking about tax evaders or rum runners.

If a State nullifies Any Fed Law, are they going to send troops to the State Leg and force them to change the Law?
Or surround the Govs Mansion?

Taking over local cops might not be as easy as it was during Segragation. Especially if Fed LE have no legal authority as Montana is getting ready to do.
Just saying this is not as cut and dry as some seem to think.
Laws are being passed by states to stop the Feds from running rough shod over the Citizens.

If a State nullifies Any Fed Law, are they going to send troops to the State Leg and force them to change the Law? Or surround the Govs Mansion?

All I'm saying is that every time nullification has come up in the past that is exactly what the president has done. And we are not talking about obscure presidents that nobody remembers. We are talking Washington, Jackson, Lincoln, Kennedy, and Eisenhower. These are the people we put on our money. That's the $1, $5, $20 as well as the penny, quarter, half dollar, and the old silver dollar. Democrat, Republican or Federalist their reaction to nullification has been to send in the troops and take over local law enforcement. OK technically Jackson didn't send in the troops, he just called up the militia and due to his reputation South Carolina caved.

And the reason doesn't seem to matter. Washington sent in the troops over an internal tax on whiskey. Jackson called up the troops against South Carolina, and his own VP, over import tariffs. Lincoln went after South Carolina over slavery. Eisenhower and Kennedy sent in the troops over desegregation. But every incident has one thing in common. A state passed laws to actively prevent Federal agents from enforcing Federal law.

You can't even say that it is against the will of the founding fathers. Washington lead the troops against the whiskey rebellion.

Nullification has been tried again and again in this nations history. Nobody has ever pulled off a nullification without getting a reaction out of the federal government. You say it won't happen this time. What I want to know I exactly why you think this time is different.