And that is to say that the Supreme Court is one of only three co equal branches of the federal government and has no monopoly in the Constitution on interpreting what the Constitution means. And The states themselves are considered co equal actors in a lot of ways to the federal government, preemption notwithstanding. And so the argument the federalist society made, and you've seen strands of this argument throughout our history as a country, is you saw Andrew Jackson say, Supreme Court has made its decision, now let's let them enforce it. (51:14–51:21)
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