Let's go.

Welcome to Citizen.

We've got a very special show today where we're going to discuss something that has been

front and center in the news a lot lately, although I don't think

people really understand it that much. So I wanted to talk a little bit about it. And it is,

of course, to deal with immigration and the Constitution and what is and is not allowed

from both the federal and the state level.

Everybody's got responsibilities.

They are enumerated as such.

And we're going to go over all that today,

including the history of this and why the decisions were made in the first place.

Then, of course, the case law that has come as a result.

So stay tuned.

We're going to be talking about a lot today.

As usual with these solo episodes, there is a substack that is associated with this

that you can refer to as well.

Now, this is about the supremacy clause.

Why the supremacy clause is suddenly controversial again. For most of American history, the Supremacy Clause operated quietly in the

background, understood but uncelebrated and rarely disputed. It was the constitutional

infrastructure, not a talking point. Kind of like plumbing, it drew attention

only when something went wrong. And as long as federal law was broadly enforced and generally

obeyed, there was little reason to argue about whether it was supreme or not. That era of

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