Nullification is a constitutional theory that a state<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._state> has the right to nullify, or invalidate, any federal law which that ...

In an era where trust in institutions crumbles beneath the weight of partisan judges and zealous prosecutors, a forgotten cornerstone of American liberty lies dormant: jury nullification. This is not ...

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The history of jury nullification is to some extent one of rebellion. As we discussed in an earlier column, the doctrine dates back to seventeenth-century England and has been exercised by juries ...

When the Tea Party wave arrived in 2010, it swept away much of the Republican Party's existing structure, and instituted a more populist approach. But as waves tend to do, it left some even older ...

Former federal prosecutor Jeffrey Toobin scoffed at the idea that jury nullification could play a role in Donald Trump’s New York criminal, thus thwarting a conviction of the former president. Jury ...

I wrote yesterday about Mike Huckabee’s proposition — channeling ghosts of Faubus, Wallace, Maddox and more — that states could simply refuse to obey a U.S. Supreme Court order overturning bans on ...

NASHVILLE — An effort by two Republican lawmakers to proceed with a "nullification" bill based on a historically unsuccessful theory that individual states can invalidate federal laws or judicial ...

Sixty-seven members of the Louisiana House and 27 state senators have embarrassed themselves and the state by adopting a loony-radical resolution saying the state has “the sovereign right” to “nullify ...

Historical amnesia is as dangerously disorienting for a nation as for an individual. So it is with the current wave of enthusiasm for “states’ rights,” “interposition,” and “nullification”—the claim ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s defiant statement on Wednesday rejecting the federal government’s authority to enforce immigration law at ...