Resolution of Federal-State Marijuana Conflict?
In January, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the end of an Obama-era policy that curtailed federal marijuana prosecutions. In response, Colorado Republican senator Cory…
The Federalism Library is an online multimedia collection of articles, books, and podcasts exploring contemporary and classic questions related to federalism. It includes material created by the Center for the Study of Federalism, as well as carefully curated information from prominent writers on federalism.
In January, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the end of an Obama-era policy that curtailed federal marijuana prosecutions. In response, Colorado Republican senator Cory…
In 2017, the Justice Department changed how it awards funds for local community policing by boosting applications from localities that agreed to help Immigration…
Since 2008, the University of Michigan and Muhlenberg College have conducted the National Surveys on Energy and the Environment, a survey on attitudes toward…
Dalton Conley writes that the recent tax law's capping of the state-and-local tax deduction at $10,000 per year is -- arguably despite the intent…
California's attorney general, on behalf of a group of 16 state attorneys general, has filed a motion to intervene in a federal lawsuit to…
Michael Maharrey writes that the hemp industry has flourished in Colorado despite longstanding federal opposition. He contends that the industry succeeded because Colorado simply…
In this blog post, Eric L. Hiser examines the recent interim memo from the EPA that seeks to move the enforcement relationship between the…
In this interview, Elmar Brok, member of the European Parliament and president of the Union of European Federalists, speaks out against the possibility of…
Gyldas Ofoulhast-Othamot writes that sectoral decentralization experiments in natural resources management have, in recent years, accompanied the implementation of decentralization policies. Ofoulhast-Othamot contends that in…
In her new book, Fragmented Democracy: Medicaid, Federalism, and Unequal Politics, Jamila Michener contends that although Medicaid is a federal program, its implementation varies…
Nicolas Schmitt suggests that the institutionalized way Switzerland continually examines its federalist structure offers a model of introspection useful to other federalist nations. Schmitt…
Pierre Haroche contends that, contrary to the idea that national parliaments were "victims" of European integration, such parliaments actually empowered the transfer of authority…
Andrew R. Kear compares how the natural gas policy paths of the federal government and the states of Colorado and Wyoming facilitate and respond…
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