Missouri Bill Would Nullify NDAA Indefinite Detention
Missouri state Senator Brian Nieves introduced legislation this month to ban his state from enforcing sections 1021 and 1022 of the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act. These sections purport to give authority to the federal government to indefinitely detain...
Reagan’s Executive Order on Federalism: A Post-Mortem
A few weeks ago weeks ago we received a question on our Tenth Amendment Center Feedback Forum about TAC’s perspective of Ronald Reagan’s Executive Order 12612. The order, a direction to the members of the Reagan administration to follow traditional...Non-Compliance is Nullification
For being such a simple concept, nullification sure does cause a lot of confusion. For some, nullification only counts if certain criteria are met. These criteria typically follow the John Calhoun method of nullification, by which states attempt to veto federal laws...