The relationship between the treaty power and U.S. Federalism has been a recurring matter of controversy throughout the nation’s history. Article II, Section 2,…
The Crosby case (2000) represents perhaps the Rehnquist Court’s most important encounter with the intersection between federalism, separation of powers, and foreign affairs. The…
In Printz v. United States (1997), the U.S. Supreme Court struck down provisions of the federal Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act for unconstitutionally intruding on state sovereignty under…
In New York v. United States (1992), the U.S. Supreme Court struck down provisions of the federal Low-Level Radioactive Waste Policy Amendments Act of…
In Perez v. United States (1971), the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the federal Consumer Credit Protection Act, which, among other things, made “loan sharking”…
Lochner v. New York is a 1905 decision in which the Supreme Court invalidated a New York statute that set the maximum number of…
In Cooley v. Board of Wardens (1852), the U.S. Supreme Court, by a vote of 7–2, upheld the constitutionality of a Pennsylvania law that…
Gibbons v. Ogden (1824) gave Chief Justice John Marshall his first opportunity to expound his broad interpretation of the Commerce Clause. The complicated legal…
Younger v. Harris was decided by the U.S. Supreme Court on February 23, 1971. John Harris Jr. had been indicted in a California state…
In deference to judicial federalism, the Supreme Court will not review a case that has been decided by a state court when the decision…
See Incorporation (Nationalization) of the Bill of Rights
The power the Supreme Court possesses to decide cases in which a state is a party conventionally dates from Cohens v. Virginia (1821). This…
The Supreme Court first considered the relationship between state and federal courts in Martin v. Hunter’s Lessee (1816). The framers of the U.S. Constitution…
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