Andrew Tutt on the Torres Case, State Sovereign Immunity, and Congress's War Powers
The Lawfare Podcast
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Supremacy of Sovereign Immunity
Sovereign immunity distinguish between suits against a state in its own court or its own court system, versus suits against the state in the federal courts? Or are those equally cotont offensive to the dignity of the states? For those who are really into sovereign munity. Well, so already we've gotten into a hot, hot, contested topic. One view is that states have sort of less they have junior varsity immunity in their own courts, but big immunity in federal court. And then one says that they actually have varsity, i guess i would say, a sovereign munity in their courts, and then kind of a junior varsity immune and federal courts o. I mean
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