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> Just look at marijuana and abortion laws for two different prime examples of how supposed federal law superseding "lower" law can play out in ways that circumvent the nature of that power structure.

Neither of these are good examples.

Marijuana is because the Feds choose not to act; the DEA could raid every dispensary tomorrow if they wanted.

Abortion never got meaningfully protected at the Federal level. The Dems had sort of a chance at it, but chose the ACA to spend that political capital on instead.