By Selwyn Duke

It isn’t often that conservatives can learn something from liberals, but I think the current debate over nullification is an exception.

As you may know, nullification is the practice whereby a state or locality identifies a federal law as being unconstitutional and simply refuses to enforce it. It is also a practice that liberals have recently condemned without reservation. And it is something liberals don’t have to practice.  

They’re expert at it.

The unprecedented federal intrusion of recent years has inspired states to consider nullifying a whole host of Uncle Sam’s dictates, ranging from gun and health control laws to cap-and-tax schemes. And the Effluent Stream media casts such defiance as unprecedented in modern times, a throwback to antebellum rebellion. And, of course, conservatives do talk about nullification, while liberals don’t.

Liberals just do it.

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