COLUMBIA — The message was pretty simple. It was written in all-capitalized white letters on blue shirts: "NULLIFY." About 50 people, many of them wearing those shirts, gathered in the S.C. Statehouse ...

The Union was under siege. South Carolinian firebreathers were thundering defiance against federal law and federal authority, threatening armed resistance and touting each state’s right to nullify ...

On this day in 1833, President Andrew Jackson wrote to Vice President Martin Van Buren expressing his opposition to South Carolina’s defiance of federal authority. He closed his letter with the ...

In 1832, blaming its struggling economy on supposedly high tariffs, South Carolina declared that the existing federal import levies would no longer apply to foreign goods landed in the state, ...

Some state lawmakers are again re-fighting the lost battles of the distant past, this time taking up the cause of nullification. Not only are some Alabama legislators intent on re-fighting the Civil ...

Matthew Spalding is the associate vice president and dean of educational programs for Hillsdale College in Washington, D.C., where he oversees the Allan P. Kirby Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies ...

“Nullification” laws have been introduced in 37 states that technically make it a felony for law enforcement agents to enforce federal restrictions banning firearms, and a recent Rasmussen poll shows ...

In his speech announcing a Justice Department lawsuit against the State of California, Attorney General Jeff Sessions suggested that the Golden State is treading the path of the confederacy.