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“This one's pretty easy: federal law — all federal law — trumps all state law,” David S. Cohen, a professor of law at Drexel Kline's School of Law, told Salon.

Loyalty to the Communist Party and country, people are told, now trumps the personal ambition that had transformed Chinese society in the last few decades.

That view has always been antithetical to the civics purpose of television political debates, but we forgot that long ago, and certainly after candidates figured out how much being telegenic trumps honesty and platform positions.

“But if the state and city point in opposite directions, if there is a true conflict, we know that the state law trumps the local ordinance,” Levinson said.

“Migration trumps everything else,” said Michael Shifter, a former president of Inter-American Dialogue in Washington.