The National Association of Counties is pressing for more direct funding from the federal government. According to the organization's president, when funding "comes through…
Amy Goldstein reports that a growing number of states are broadening Medicaid's coverage to include social services such as helping with housing and providing…
Utah governor Spencer Cox has signed into law a bill that purports to give the state the option of ignoring federal directives that it…
Ilya Somin considers the implications of U.S. Supreme Court justices' focus during Trump v. Anderson on whether the states have the power to enforce the insurrection clause…
Amy Swiffen and Joshua Nichols have edited Indigenous Peoples and the Future of Federalism (Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 2024). The book offers legal analyses that explore forms…
Ryan C. Willilams writes that the "novel, compounded structure of the government established by the federal Constitution" reflects both national and purely federal systems…
Jessica Bulman-Pozen and Miriam Seifter contend that the U.S. Supreme Court has winnowed individual liberties and thus it is worth considering the "less appreciated" right that…
Daniel I. Morales argues that the relative cohesion and shared sense of national identity in the postwar years cannot be recovered. Because of this, he…
The European Commission, the European Union's executive branch, recently opened another disciplinary procedure against the government of Hungary, this time for legislation that could…
In an op-ed, Sonal Gupta and Rahul Parashar explore how recent legal rulings have illustrated that India's federalism is an "intricate dance between asymmetry and symmetry."…
Jared Brey reports that Pennsylvania and Wisconsin have used federal Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act funds in making significant progress in removing lead from drinking…
Halbera West looks at the options that political subunits in the Danish Arctic have to increase their influence. Read more here.
Ilya Somin writes that Texas's contention that illegal immigration constitutes an invasion is a "badly flawed" argument that does not justify the state's interference…
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