Tuesday, March 25, 2008

A big win for federalism

As I was posting this morning about the successes of the conservative legal movement, the Supreme Court was illustrating the point with its decision in Medellin v. Texas. Jonathan Adler briefly sums things up over at Volokh.

Pre-emption is not my area of expertise, but for several reasons this decision is a treasure trove for legal scholars of all disciplines. Also, the case appears on first read to reverse the unfortunate tendency of the Court in recent years to pre-empt American law with the law of foreign jurisdictions. So, time permitting I will post on this later today. Stay tuned...

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