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The United States is a plurilegal federal union — conflict-of-laws scholar Symeon Symeonides' term for a country where American judges encounter roughly five thousand conflict-of-laws cases a year, far more than the EU, Canada, or Australia. This episode works through why that divergence is constitutionally legal, which everyday behaviors carry real criminal risk across state lines, and whether states reaching across borders threatens the Union itself. From magazine capacity and concealed-carry reciprocity to post-Dobbs abortion prosecutions and the live Louisiana v. FDA mifepristone case, we trace what happens when "the United States" turns out to be fifty legal spaces wearing one name. Episode #855908 — open it directly at myweirdprompts.com/855908