Video from Tuesday's AEI event and the transcript of Wednesday's Supreme Court oral argument are now on-line. The oral argument would seem to indicate that the Court is likely to affirm on narrow grounds of the National Bank Act statutory scheme rather than creating any sweeping new pronouncements on the authority of administrative agencies to preempt state law. Deepak Gupta of Public Citizen has a round-up of links.
Watters v. Wachovia Bank
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