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September 18, 2026

Thoughts on Pakistan’s Evolving Federal Structure

In an op-ed, Quraysh Khattak reviews the history of Pakistan's federal system and offers ideas about how "to rethink Pakistan’s federal architecture holistically." Read more here.

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September 18, 2026

Post-Apartheid Federalism in South Africa

Yaroslav Askov considers South African federalism and suggests that it conforms to a "holding-together" model with constrained subnational autonomy and meaningful checks through the National Council of…

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September 17, 2026

Localities and State Reporting Mandates

Daniel B. Rosenbaum writes that localities "operate in environments of state-imposed stress" due in part to an increasingly voluminous number of state-mandated reporting requirements…

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September 17, 2026

States and Antitrust Law

Phil Weiser, the attorney general of Colorado, recently addressed the role that states play in antitrust litigation during a Georgetown University symposium on the…

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September 16, 2026

Is a Rebalancing of Federal-State Power Coming?

Jonathan Shorman and Kevin Hardy write that the people of the United States face a choice of whether to follow the path of more federal authority,…

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September 16, 2026

The U.S. Constitution, Federalism, and Constitutional Communities

As Constitution Day, on September 17, approaches, CSF Fellow Troy E. Smith invites readers to consider how the nation's fundamental source of law interacts…

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September 15, 2026

National and State Authority in American Elections

Franita Tolson considers the interaction of federal and state law in the nation's elections. Tolson writes that "the federalism of our election system has…

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September 15, 2026

Is the U.S. Supreme Court Encroaching on the Power of State Courts?

Adam B. Sopko reviews the last two decades of the U.S. Supreme Court's application of the adequate and independent state grounds doctrine and concludes that the…

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September 14, 2026

Trump Administration Proposes Census Changes

National Public Radio reports that the Trump administration has announced major changes to how the federal government could produce census results. The changes would affect each state's share…

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September 14, 2026

Reverse Federalism and Artificial Intelligence

Priya Nair writes that Open AI has thrown its support behind four California legislative bills that will require tighter artificial-intelligence regulation. Nair suggests that…

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September 11, 2026

Gubernatorial Resistance

Miriam Seifter contends that governors have "important and underappreciated powers to resist, counteract, and reshape" what she views as encroachment by the federal government on the…

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September 11, 2026

Sanctuary Jurisdiction Litigation Update

Ilya Somin examines two more "sanctuary city" losses for the Trump administration, as well as a rare win for the administration in this field of…

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September 9, 2026

A Federalism-Based Exception to NLRA Preemption?

Jordan Cozby writes that the National Labor Relations Act's (NLRA) preemption of state labor law "is one of the broadest preemption doctrines in federal law."…

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