From Eric Dondero:

Libertarians decades ago founded the nullification movement, both jury nullification and nullification of federal mandates by the states. Now the issue has entered the mainstream of American politics.

State Senator Tom Emmer won the official endorsement of Republican Party of Minnesota convention delegates for Governor. The convention met over the weekend. Liberal news blogs are already attacking him. Ironically, the very attacks from the left, may garner him greater support from somewhat skeptical Libertarians who are often critical of GOP candidates for not being hardline enough.

From TPM (via Memeo):

Emmer was first elected to the Minnesota House of Representatives in 2004. Just this past March, he was a co-author of a proposed state constitutional amendment that would, to borrow the words of Nigel Tufnel, turn the Tenth Amendment all the way up to 11, with Minnesota preemptively nullifying all federal laws unless a state supermajority consents to them. Here is the key quote from the amendment's text: "A federal law does not apply in Minnesota unless that law is approved by a two-thirds vote of the members of each house of the legislature and is signed by the governor. Before voting to approve a federal law, each legislator must individually affirm that the legislator has read the federal law and understands it."

Last September, Emmer proposed another state constitutional amendment that would prohibit any individual or employer mandate to carry health insurance in the state of Minnesota, if one were to eventually pass at the federal or state level (as it did eventually pass at the federal level).

Note - Emmer picked up the enthusiastic endorsement of libertarian-conservative Sarah Palin last week, and over the weekend he also gained the backing of moderate-conservative incumbent Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty.

(H/t Memeo)