
The Constitutional Role of the State Solicitor General
Live at the National Constitution Center
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The State's Interest in Defending Their Authority to Enforce Their Own Laws
We successfully defended our authority to enforce these laws against nationally chartered banks. It's not so unusual these days for states, a coalition of states, to challenge a federal administrative or statutory action as unconstitutional and infringing in some way on the interests of the state. We just had an argument in a dispute between two states over a compact, but that's unusual. And I think it has led to concern on the part of some justices.
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