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            <description>An honest accounting of what the contraction of judicial weighting actually altered, what it left exactly as it was, and why moving a decision from an agency to a court is not the same as returning it to anyone who faces voters.</description>
            
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            <description>A working tool for reading any fight between a state and Washington — is it command, which is barred; conditions on money, which are largely permitted; or preemption, which is a separate power — demonstrated across examples of opposite political valence.</description>
            
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