Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig laws.ms. NS
Answer
laws.ms. 5 NS max.ns.cloudflare.com.
laws.ms. 5 NS elinore.ns.cloudflare.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0