PSCI 3322 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Spencer Roane, Supremacy Clause, Antonin Scalia

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Virginia fines the cohens for selling dc lottery tickets in their state: virginia had a law that illegalizes the selling of out of state lottery tickets, they appeal to us supreme court, roane says they cannot appeal. They"re not going to take back the conviction. Creating a precedent, sc is superior to state sc. They have to comply with the decisions of the us sc. Sc can get involved as long as it is over an interpretation of a federal case even if the citizens are of that state and are subject to the laws of that state. He asserts the superiority, weakening state of supreme courts, But marshall is criticizing spencer roane, the cj of virginia and a leading doing it at the expense of jeffersonians. Jeffersonian and states right advocate: cites supremacy clause, sc has jurisdiction over the case and to interpret the law, spencer roane has to obey it because of the supremacy clause.

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