Supreme Court: individuals may challenge federal law for violating states' rights

[JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website; JURIST news archive] Thursday ruled in Bond v. United States [Cornell LII Backgrounder; oral arguments transcript; JURIST report] that a private individual can challenge whether a federal criminal law passed to implement an international treaty is valid under the Tenth Amendment [text]. Carol Anne Bond was charged with burning her husband’s mistress using poisonous chemicals and was indicted under a federal law [18 USC § 229(a) text] created to stop the distribution and…