![]() ![]() ![]() According to the Constitution’s Supremacy Clause, state law is invalidated whenever it conflicts with legislation from Washington. Federal law, after all, trumps state law. The White House doesn’t believe that they have much of a case. ![]() The states are fighting reform on two counts: first, that the Constitution doesn’t allow Americans to be forced to buy anything, even if it is in their own interest and second, that it violates their Tenth Amendment right to legislate anything not explicitly mandated to the discretion of the federal government. With dozens of states lining up to contest the constitutionality of health-care reform as it passed through Congress last week, there is ample reason to take this charge seriously, not treat it as the final breath of a party of sore losers.
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