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How is federalism shown in the Washington v United States 2022 case

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Since McCulloch v. Maryland, 4 Wheat. 316, this Court has interpreted the Supremacy Clause as prohibiting States from interfering

with or controlling the operations of the Federal Government. This

constitutional doctrine—often called the intergovernmental immunity

doctrine—has evolved to bar state laws that either regulate the United

States directly or discriminate against the Federal Government or its

contractors. A state law discriminates against the Federal Government or its contractors if it “single[s them] out” for less favorable

“treatment,” Washington v. United States, 460 U. S. 536, 546, or if it

regulates them unfavorably on some basis related to their governmental “status,” North Dakota v. United States, 495 U. S. 423, 438 (plurality opinion).

Washington’s law violates these principles by singling out the Federal Government for unfavorable treatment. The law explicitly treats

federal workers differently than state or private workers, and imposes

costs upon the Federal Government that state and private entities do

not bear. The law thus violates the Supremacy Clause unless Congress

has consented to such regulation through waiver.

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