Sentence examples for to nullification from inspiring English sources

More recently, courts have been almost uniformly hostile to nullification arguments.

The Missouri Republican Party thinks linking guns to nullification works well, said Matt Wills, the party's director of communications, thanks in part to the push by President Obama for tougher gun laws.

Prosecutors objected, arguing that disclosing the sentence was an invitation to nullification -- a practice in which jurors, despite the strength of the evidence, acquit because they believe the law itself is unjust.

His war against the Second Bank of the United States and his opposition to nullification in South Carolina, however, allowed Henry Clay to bring fiscal conservatives and southern states' rights proponents together in a coalition with those who still believed in the National Republican program of a protective tariff and federally financed internal improvements.

• To the Editor: It is completely inconsistent for Tea Party supporters, who say they revere the Constitution, to make the system designed by the founding fathers for enacting national legislation subject to nullification by the legislatures in two-thirds of the states.

As I noted in my book Constitution Cafe: Jefferson's Brew for a True Revolution, this right to "nullification" was first established in the New World in 1735.

As the court of appeal explained: "What is required is a real risk of a breach of the principles of a fair trial guaranteed by article 6 which is 'so fundamental as to amount to a nullification, or destruction of the very essence, of the right guaranteed by that article'".

In a radio address on May 11, Alley announced that due to the nullification, the military would heve to stay in power beyond June 17.

Stephen I. Vladeck, an American University law professor who filed a friend-of-the-court brief asking the court to rehear the case, said the note amounted to a nullification of the more sweeping parts of the January ruling without the court bothering to rehear it.

The lawyers, Sabrina Shroff and Steven M. Statsinger, said the prosecution of Mr. Heicklen would only draw attention to the nullification issue and would "surely convert more to the cause than poor Mr. Heicklen ever could on his own".

Last night, Cuccinelli ceded the stage at his rally to libertarian icon Ron Paul, who implored the crowd to consider "nullification" of federal law.