preemption
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Over the six days between the show’s preemption and its return, celebrities and influencers posted instructions on how to cancel subscriptions to Disney’s streaming services.
From Salon • Sep. 26, 2025
During his Monday address at the Concordia Annual Summit in New York City, Carr insisted that those words played no role in Kimmel’s suspension, instead blaming the show’s preemption on its “ratings.”
From Slate • Sep. 23, 2025
“EPA granted preemption waivers for California to tackle local problems like smog in the Los Angeles basin, where the pollution was both generated by and felt by Californians,” the fuel producers said in their appeal.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 13, 2024
Whenever that happens, the Constitution’s supremacy clause says federal law wins: Under what’s known as the preemption doctrine, federal law is the “supreme Law of the Land” and overrides the conflicting state law.
From Slate • Apr. 22, 2024
Without tracing the system of preemption laws through the several stages, it is sufficient to observe that it rests upon certain just and plain principles, firmly established in all our legislation.
From A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 6, part 2: Andrew Johnson by Richardson, James D. (James Daniel)
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