Because both constitutions are rigid, this means that ordinary national statutes conflicting with such law are unconstitutional.
According to the special-counsel statute, "conflict of interest" is one of the grounds on which an attorney general, or acting attorney general, may remove a special counsel.
The federal government sued, saying the statute conflicted with federal immigration laws and policies.
George Washington University's Neil Buchanan, Cornell's Michael Dorf, and Baltimore's Garret Epps have repeatedly explained why and how the statute conflicts with the Constitution.
They do not interpret statutes to conflict with legislative intent, and courts have been reluctant in particular to "read out" provisions for this reason.
The extent to which genetic privacy provisions in these statutes may conflict with state public health laws is unclear.
Another extension came with R v Secretary of State for the Home Department, ex parte Fire Brigades Union, where the Court of Appeal held that even if a statute had not yet come into force, the prerogative could not be used to alter this statute to "conflict with Parliament's wishes".
Senator Harry Reid, Democrat of Nevada, wrote to the Office of Government Ethics last week, raising questions about Mr. Card's actions, saying he believed they might violate Bush administration guidelines and federal statutes governing conflicts of interest.
We asked Mr. Morsi how he felt about a proposal by the more conservative Islamists for a panel of Muslim religious scholars chosen by Cairo's Al Azhar, the pre-eminent center of Sunni Muslim scholarship, to have court-like powers to strike down statutes that conflicted with Islamic law.
Arizona's statute directly conflicts with the federal law by imposing the additional requirement of proof of citizenship.
