11.   His authority is dubious at best, and it tramples on state sovereignty with a ferocity usually deplored by Republicans.

12.   Immediately after that provision became law, New York challenged it in federal court on the ground of state sovereignty.

13.   In an opinion by Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, the court ruled Wednesday that this portion of the law was an unconstitutional incursion on state sovereignty.

14.   In an opinion by Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, the court ruled that this portion of the law was an unconstitutional incursion on state sovereignty.

15.   In so doing, the Court seriously reduces the scope of the Eleventh Amendment, thus underprotecting the state sovereignty at which the Eleventh Amendment is principally directed.

16.   In that case, a divided Supreme Court said that the federal Indian Gaming Regulatory Act was an unconstitutional incursion on state sovereignty.

17.   In that case, Printz v. United States, the court found that the law violated principles of state sovereignty and did not address the Second Amendment.

18.   It is the very PRINCIPLE of separate state sovereignty that such a law offends, and no comparative assessment of the various interests can overcome that fundamental defect. . . .

19.   Its history as a charter of state sovereignty has been fitful, with the chief justice its most ardent modern champion on the court.

20.   Of the majority, Kennedy is widely seen as the justice most likely to put the brakes on a drive toward state sovereignty.