Thanks. That makes sense. State v. Feds.

Still in that scenario the lower courts would have to rule in favor of the state. So even if it made it to SCOTUS wouldn’t they ignore the whole abortion issue and just rule that state law cannot overrule federal law?

And in not hearing the case, thus making abortion illegal in said state, doesn’t that make this Court an activist Court, which, ironically, is sort of a liberal idea?

This leads me to two more questions. Is there any case history where a lower court ruling was allowed to stand thus overturning a previous SCOTUS ruling? And if SCOTUS did hear the case are there any examples where SCOTUS has overturned a previous SCOTUS ruling just because they didn’t like it?

At the end of the day I hope it’s never overturned. One flawed ruling is not nearly the mess that two flawed rulings would become.