Several states passed laws declaring the Affordable Care Act "null and void" within their borders. What was the legal effect of these nullification attempts?
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The Supremacy Clause (Article VI) makes federal law supreme. States cannot declare federal laws void. NFIB v. Sebelius upheld most of the ACA. Legitimate state resistance uses constitutional means lik...
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