As recent US Supreme Court rulings have lessened a range of federal protections, constitutional action has increased in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As Republicans in Congress consider cutting the federal share of Medicaid funding, states are weighing numerous options to scale ...

Nearly a century ago, U.S. Spureme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis praised the tradition of federalism in his dissent in New State Ice v. Liebmann, which popularized the term “laboratory of democracy.

When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and the constitutional right to abortion in June, it declared that it was sending the issue back to the “people and their elected representatives.” But ...

On this episode of Start Making Sense, Alan Minsky on the campaign to defeat Jamaal Bowman, and Eyal Press on state Constitutions expanding rights missing from the US constitution. Jon Wiener Here's ...

PHOENIX (AP) — South Dakota’s constitution refers to the governor as a “he.” But for the past six years, the governor was a “she” — Kristi Noem, the first female to hold the position there. The ...

On October 12, 2023, the Byron R. White Center for the Study of American Constitutional Law welcomed Professor Alicia Bannon to discuss the increasing importance of state constitutions in our current ...

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Last month, the European Court for Human Rights ruled that Switzerland violated its citizens’ human rights by inadequately combating climate change. More than 2,000 Swiss women 64 and older argued to ...

Voters in five states on Tuesday were asked whether to update their states’ constitutions to remove slavery and indentured servitude as potential punishments. Although the 13th Amendment to the US ...