Hencely v. Fluor Corp. · ¶57

The Constitution makes federal law the “supreme Law of the Land,” Art. VI, cl. 2, and over the years, this Court has identified a variety of circumstances in which federal law preempts state law. In this case, the opinion of the Court stresses the two situations in which preemption is most evident: where a federal law expressly preempts state law and where it is impossible for a regulated party to comply with both federal and state law. See ante, at 34, 37–38. But these two categories do not constitute an exhaustive list. Our precedents squarely establish that the Constitution and other federal laws may also impliedly preempt state law. Kansas v. Garcia, 589 U. S. 191, 202–203 (2020). And most pertinent here, we have long recognized that federal law preempts state laws that intrude on the powers that the Constitution confers exclusively on the Federal Government, as well as laws that…

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