In its lawsuit against the federal government, California asserts that adding the question violates the Constitution's "actual enumeration" requirement. Some legal experts, however, suggest…
In addition to California, twelve more states have indicated their intention to sue to stop the Trump administration from adding a census question about citizenship. Plans…
Adriano Bosoni traces the latest iteration of the federalism discussion among the members of the European Union. Read more here.
The Trump administration has announced that a question regarding respondents' citizenship status will be added to the 2020 census. California has filed a lawsuit…
Seven states have threatened to sue the Trump administration for delaying implementation of an Obama-era rule concerning air pollution from landfills. Read more here.
At the request of the Spanish government, Carles Puigdemont has been arrested by German officials. Puigdemont will be held pending extradition proceedings. The arrest prompted…
Vikram D. Amar traces some of the notable federalism issues that have arisen during the first year of the Trump presidency. Amar sketches out…
Attorney General Jeff Session released a memo last week urging federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty in some drug cases. Support for the…
Pratheepan Gulasekaram, Rose Cuison Villazor, and Rick Su look at the anti-sanctuary movement. The authors contend that this movement, as carried out at the…
Henry McLeish writes that Scotland is dominated by the "absolute sovereignty" of England. He contends that federalism offers the only realistic alternative to independence…
Jonathan Zalewski contends that the federal government's regulation of unmanned aircraft is too restrictive. He calls for a cooperative-federalism approach between the states and…
A new issue of Commonwealth: A Journal of Pennsylvania Politics & Policy has been released. The journal touches on issues commonly faced by governments in…
Shitong Qiao explores the interaction of national versus local rights in land in China. Qiao contends that federalism in China weakens land rights (via…
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