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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Can a country’s citizens nullify the criminal cases that a popular leader faces by handing them an electoral victory in the general elections? This question raises issues that could prove pivotal to ...

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 ...

Joni Ernst, the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in Iowa, appears to believe states can nullify federal laws. In a video obtained by The Daily Beast, Ernst said on September 13, 2013 at a forum held ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — One lawmaker is hoping to bring back a bill that would grant the state the authority to reject certain federal rules, statues, executive orders or court decisions. Sen.

Opponents of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), or ObamaCare, are trying many options to defeat its implementation, and a handful of Idaho legislators are hoping their state will ...