Steve Vladeck examines Ortiz v. United States, in which the Supreme Court offered an analysis of what kinds of military-law cases it will review.…
Christian Ronald writes that the desire to protect individuals from commercial exploitation after death has led many states to pass postmortem right-of-publicity laws. Ronald…
U.S. mayors are increasingly pushing back against federal policy. Center for the Study of Federalism Fellow John Kincaid explains why and points to other…
Michael Li and Yurij Rudensky with the Brennan Center for Justice write that although the Supreme Court recently returned partisan gerrymandering appeals from Wisconsin…
The Supreme Court has largely affirmed a redistricting plan that plaintiffs charged was based on racial animus. Amy Howe writes that the ruling was an almost…
In a white paper prepared for the National Academy for State Health Policy, a number of scholars analyze whether, despite federal patent law, the Tenth…
The Federalist Society writes that one of the most divisive issues during the ratification debates was whether the proposed constitution granted excessive authority to the…
In a ruling viewed as one of the term's most highly politicized, the state's Republican-dominated high court struck down Laredo's plastic-bag ban. The ruling…
The Supreme Court ruled this week that internet retailers can be required to collect sales taxes even in states where the retailers have no…
Kate Elizabeth Brown writes that Hamilton's views on state sovereignty are perhaps too often viewed in light of his frustration with what he perceived…
The Pew Charitable Trusts reports that most states do not track expenditures related to disaster recovery. The report also suggests that this has implications…
In the face of possible emissions rollbacks from the EPA, Colorado has become the fourteenth state to embrace the heightened vehicle emissions standards followed by…
David Fontana writes that diffusion of power produces many desirable results, and that federalism and separation of powers are generally viewed as the primary…
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