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Federal judicial power

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From 232 U.S. 318 - Harrison v. St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad · 1914Most cited · 223 citing opinions

The judicial power of the United States as created by the Constitution and provided for by Congress pursuant to its constitutional authority is a power wholly independent of state action, and which therefore the several states may not by any exertion of authority in any form, directly or indirectly, destroy, abridge, limit, or render inefficacious.