Question

Natural Gas Corporation obtains a federal license to operate a gas pipeline through a certain area of Oregon. The Oregon state legislature enacts a law that bans gas pipelines in that area. Most likely, the state law violates:___.
a. no provision in the U.S. Constitution.
b. the supremacy clause.
c. the commerce clause.
d. the due process clause.

Answer 1

Answer:

b. the supremacy clause

Explanation:

This is clearly a violation of the supremacy clause of the constitution. The supremacy clause makes the constitution and federal laws made under the constitutional authority the supreme law of the united state. And in a case where there is a conflicting state law, as we have here with Oregon, the federal law is supposed to take priority.

So in this case where the federal law and the state law do not agree, the feral law has the power to override the law of the state. So oregon has violated the supremacy clause