state governments

States have constitutional protections against commandeering and coercion — but face a new challenge when the federal government sidelines states completely.

A series exploring the powers and authorities state and local governments have to check federal overreach and protect democratic norms and individual rights.

State and local governments have constitutional and legal powers that can be harnessed to challenge repressive federal actions and to advance meaningful freedom and equality.

State attorneys general and local district attorneys can take action to uphold the rule of law in the face of unlawful federal actions.

From healthcare bans to funding cuts, the consequences of hate-driven policymaking opposing transgender rights ripple broadly across communities.

The Trump administration's executive order on mail-in voting is unconstitutional. States and Congress—not the President—have authority to regulate federal elections.

“Alien land laws” frame Asian land ownership as a national security threat despite minimal evidence, echoing the United States’ historical exclusionary policies.

U.S. state and local leaders can fill voids left as the Trump administration cuts and even exits multilateral organizations.

Despite some positive developments, it is likely that ongoing and future civil-rights litigation will be contoured to satisfy, not an audience of nine, but a Chief Justice whose…

The route to less racially or politically gerrymandered congressional districts could pass through remapping state legislative districts.

"These laws on their face may make superficial efforts to distinguish between persons of Chinese ancestry and the CCP, but they also equate all Chinese denizens with foreign agents,…

"The militarization of the southern border not only stigmatizes migrants and asylum seekers but also undermines core legal principles designed to protect democracy and individual…