preemption

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Instead, it has resurfaced in more targeted disputes about statutory interpretation and federal preemption.

From Slate • Mar. 31, 2026

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

“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

When I first started seriously considering preemption in 2021, I wrote that “it now poses one of the most serious threats to anything but the most moderate of criminal legal system reforms.”

From Slate • Feb. 22, 2024

Preemption rights on such a scale to private corporations are unequal and hostile to the policy and principles which sanction preemption laws.

From A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 6, part 2: Andrew Johnson by Richardson, James D. (James Daniel)