But federal courts strike down state statutes all the time for violating the U.S. Constitution.
But my biggest disappointment was the visit down State Street to Laurel Street, my first home and mortgage.
Mr Cameron also accused Gordon Brown of running a "top down state control" of "telling people what to do".
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In 1967, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down state laws prohibiting interracial marriages.
Chief Justice John Roberts, among others, seems reluctant to open a new avenue for judges to strike down state laws.
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Virginia, the 1967 ruling that struck down state laws banning interracial marriage.
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The justices could strike down DOMA's limits on federal recognition of same-sex marriage without upholding Proposition 8 and knocking down state-approved same-sex marriage bans.
The Supreme Court has enforced the Commerce Clause aggressively in that context, striking down state laws that discriminate against out-of-state wineries, for example.
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Still, you can take a very pleasant stroll down State Street.
Virginia that struck down state bans on interracial marriages.
Though many people vehemently disagree with particular decisions of the court, its legal power to strike down state or federal laws, to arbitrate disputes between the president and Congress, and between either of them and the states, remains unchallenged.
Consumer advocates and some industry analysts contend that the agency long courted big banks to choose the OCC as their regulator by offering a lax approach to supervision and taking the side of banks in striking down state consumer-protection laws.
Under the so-called "dormant Commerce Clause" doctrine (dormant because it isn't actually written anywhere) the Supreme Court has interpreted the Commerce Clause in the Constitution, which gives Congress the sole right to regulate interstate commerce, as a mandate to strike down state laws that interfere with same.
Mr Clegg is a free-market liberal who would fit happily into the liberal traditions of Dutch politics: whereas the left of his party still looks to the state to deliver improvements, Mr Clegg is among those who suspect that a top-down state is a wasteful provider of services, let alone social change.
When Democratic Gov. Gray Davis was recalled a few years ago and replaced with Arnold Schwarzenegger, instead of galvanizing the state party, it revealed the cracks and fault lines up and down the state.
Since last Saturday, he's been trekking up and down the state, assessing the damage.
He has spent months trudging up and down the state, consulting interest groups and pundits.
Maine passed a similar law in 1995 that was struck down by state courts that same year.
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In the 2002 ruling in Lawrence v Texas, the Supreme Court struck down a state statute forbidding private homosexual conduct.
Broken down by state, 41 states saw declines in home ownership since 2000, many of them in the South and West where foreclosures were more common.
Their curricula are rigidly laid down by state governments, and schools are among the last bastions of union influence in Australia: headteachers have few powers of discipline.
Earlier this year, voters in Missouri and Louisiana also approved amendments banning same-sex marriage, although a judge in Louisiana later struck down that state's measure because of flawed ballot language.
This time Jeb has quashed Attila comparisons by appointing Frank Brogan, Florida's reassuring commissioner for education, as his running mate, and by visiting 200 schools up and down the state.
The proposed North Dakota legislation is aimed at shutting down the state's sole abortion clinic in Fargo and backers say it's a direct challenge to the U.S. Supreme Court's Roe v.
Those who could read shared the glorious details with their illiterate fellows, and up and down the state, Latinos savored the blow-by-blow reporting from the front lines of the conflict that had so riveted their attention.
If either candidate has coat-tails that reach right down to state level, he can influence the party balance in the state legislatures which, after 2000, will be redrawing the lines of congressional districts (hence affecting future elections).
"If, as plaintiffs argue, a successor program must be Medicaid-funded then the only legal remedy would be for this court to shut down the state-funded women's health program, not to order the inclusion of Planned Parenthood, " Judge Yelenosky wrote in the ruling.
She was accorded a ceremonial funeral with military honours, one step down from a state funeral.
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