Tag: Federalism
Caught Between Governments: New York’s Response to Shifting Federal Vaccine Guidance
(Source) Federal Retrenchment and State Resistance Recent federal changes to childhood vaccination guidance have produced one of the sharpest modern divergences between national public-health recommendations and state-level regulatory authority. In January 2026, federal health officials dramatically reduced the number of vaccines recommended for routine pediatric use, cutting the schedule from seventeen immunizations to eleven and…
17 Mar 2026
Paternalism on Steroids
Kirk Sigmon asks a simple question: why does the federal government spend money prosecuting weight lifters who want to get more muscular, and, much to the bodybuilders’ chagrin, go bald and potentially develop breasts?
13 Oct 2011
Beyond the Veil of Federalism: Protecting the Consular Rights of Foreign Nationals in United States Courts by Adisada Dudic
I. Introduction The United State of America must comply with the decisions of the International Court of Justice (ICJ). This obligation comes from Article 94 of the United Nations Charter, ratified in 1945.[1] In Medellín v. Texas, the US Supreme Court said that the Supremacy Clause of the US Constitution does not require Texas to…
19 Nov 2010