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Trump bets big on obscure constitutional power that judges keep shutting down: expert

The Trump administration is invoking the supremacy clause of the U.S. Constitution to assert broad authority over states, and so far courts aren’t buying it, The New Republic’s Matt Ford argued in an analysis published Wednesday. The clause says the Constitution and federal laws made under it are “the supreme Law of the Land.” Ford writes that the…

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