Sentence examples for nullification efforts from inspiring English sources

The civil war put an end to southern nullification efforts, but the idea sprang up again when several states registered intransigent opposition to school desegregation efforts in the 1950s.

Adam Winkler, a professor of law at the University of California, Los Angeles, who follows nullification efforts nationally, said that nearly two dozen states had passed medical marijuana laws in defiance of federal restrictions.

In the case of the NLRB (and the new Consumer Financial Protection Agency) we are seeing another "nullification" effort -- preventing the agency from operating by preventing appointments.

Then there is the modern nullification movement.

Earlier efforts to pass jury nullification laws in Oklahoma and Arizona failed.

They say that state-level nullification of federal laws is the next step, and efforts have already begun on this in a number of states.

"This was jury nullification".

But he called nullification "kooky".

Jury nullification has an ambiguous history.

It's not a nullification.

It requires the nullification of personal loans.