nullification
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- n the states'-rights doctrine that a state can refuse to recognize or to enforce a federal law passed by the United States Congress
- n the act of nullifying; making null and void; counteracting or overriding the effect or force of something
- AAArocker asks: Please comment on jury nullification! Alan Dershowitz: I don't like jury nullification.
- Worst of all was the jury, whose perverse verdict was the most brazen and lawless act of nullification since the heyday of Strom Thurmond.
- At a caucus of Southern Senators, Thurmond produced mimeographed copies of his own arm-waving call for nullification.