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On the recordOctober 31, 2011
Frankly, when a State seeks to preempt Federal law and to argue on its own that that law is, in advance, unconstitutional, is 'nullification' by any other sense of the word.
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Gerry Connolly
Democratic · Virginia

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Connolly critiques state actions that challenge federal laws as a form of nullification.

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