New Law: Virginia will not cooperate with NDAA detention
the Virginia legislature overwhelmingly passed a law that forbids state agencies from cooperating with any federal attempt to exercise the indefinite detention without due process provisions written into sections 1021 and 1022 of the National Defense Authorization Act.
Lincoln: Did he Really Say that?
Woods: “Why am I not surprised that someone with this mentality opposes nullification?”
Action Alert: Nullification Movie in the Final Stages
Can you please HELP push us across the finish line right now?
Obama Blusters, Brewer Begs. When will Someone Grow a Spine?
Isn’t it time that Governors and state Attorneys General stopped wasting our precious time and money playing these silly legal games, grow a spine, and actually fulfill the oath they took to support and defend the Constitution, including the Tenth Amendment?
Nullification: Alive and Well on the Left and Right
by Michael Boldin “If you don’t like it here, move to Cuba!†“Why don’t you go spout your mouth off in Iraq with your buddy Saddam, you terrorist!†Those were common emails for me to receive while George W. Bush was president. Opposing Bush policies like the Patriot Act, Real ID, and just about everything [...]
Meet Joshua Glover and Our History
In the 1850s, the issue was states rights…northern states rights rejecting federal slave laws.
California: A Nullifier’s Paradise?
The pundits scream “racism,” the legal experts cite the “supremacy clause,” and the entire country – left to right – just might be missing the point.
Null. Void. Of No Effect.
5 and counting. Maine, Montana, Oregon, Texas and Wyoming to consider Federal Health Care Nullification Act in 2011
“Unconstitutional Law” is an Oxymoron
The Tenth Amendment prohibits the federal government from interfering with a state’s decision to either allow or prohibit the cultivation, distribution or use of marijuana within its own boundaries (case law involving the Commerce Clause notwithstanding).
With or Without Federal “Permissionâ€
we don’t need approval from the federal government to stand up for our rights. We need to stand up for them whether they want us to or not!
The Origins of Nullification
The defenders of centralized governmental power (a.k.a. tyranny) despise the Jeffersonian idea that the citizens of the states have a right to nullify what they believe to be unconstitutional federal laws.
The Impossible is now Possible
Unlike the reformist strategy which seeks to mobilize power within Washington, DC in order to reform and redirect that power, nullification seeks to diminish and redistribute that power through relentless, decentralized, but ideally coordinated, acts of state level, constitutional resistance.
Judicial Supremacy or State Nullification?
When lawyers and judges complete law school without even reading the Constitution, instead learning from the vaunted faculty that the Constitution makes the Supreme Court the exclusive arbiter of that document, you are conditioned to believe it.
Whether They Want us to or Not
When states do their duty and stand up for our liberty, they’re not looking for approval from federal courts – they’re protecting us from them.
State Nullification vs Federal Supremacy
When a state determines a federal law is unconstitutional and they pass legislation making the federal law null and void within their state it is not rebellion…
Unconstitutional Legislation: Just Say No!
For all the noise being made by people frustrated with DC, few either understand or are willing to embrace the two key components that would make their goals a reality
Arizonans Dare To Defy The Feds Again!
Just when you thought Arizona couldn’t get any more provocative, or push any more of the federal government’s buttons, it looks like America’s 48th state may actually become the 15th state to adopt another very controversial law!
Wanted: EPA Out of Texas
Next time this EPA Administrator Al Armendari steps foot in Texas, he should be escorted to the nearest border, where he can scurry back to Washington D.C. with the message that Texas is done playing games, they’ve finally had enough
A Bright Idea: Less Litigation And More Interposition!
While favorable court rulings are welcome, even Supreme Court decisions should not be accepted as legitimate by state governments if such decisions uphold “laws” that clearly would have been rejected by the Constitution’s ratifiers.
We Refuse!
D.C. rarely follows the Constitution, and hasn’t for a long time. The obvious question – what do we do about it?
The Ivy League Hates Nullification
Thomas Woods takes down yet another power-loving “legal expert” on the true meaning and history of nullification.
