Showing posts with label federalism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label federalism. Show all posts
Saturday, September 5, 2026

The Constitution and Election Law

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Previous posts have discussed authoritarian moves by the executive branch . U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani, found the new Postal Ser...
Monday, June 8, 2026

Religion, Well-Being, and the State of the States

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Many posts have discusse d federalism . The State of the States Report of the State of the Nation Project has valuable data on states.   ...
Saturday, January 10, 2026

No Absolute Immunity for Feds Who Break State Laws

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Our chapter on  federalism  includes an extensive discussion of  crime . Devan Cole at CNN : Vice President JD Vance’s claim Thursday that...
Sunday, November 2, 2025

"I Feared for My Life, Officer"

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    Many   posts  have  discussed   crime  in the  United States .  Mark Maremont  and  Paul Overberg at WSJ : It’s easier than ever to kill...
Monday, September 8, 2025

Butt-legging Soars

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  Alexander Hamilton wrote in Federalist 21: It is a signal advantage of taxes on articles of consumption, that they contain in their own na...
Sunday, July 13, 2025

The Secret Service Screwed Up

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 One year ago, a shooter nearly killed Trump.  The Senate Homeland Security Committee has a report on how badly the Secret Service screwed ...
Sunday, June 29, 2025

What ICE Can and Cannot Do

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  Many   posts  have  discussed   immigration . Russell Contreras at Axios: ICE is tasked with enforcing the nation's immigration laws a...
Sunday, February 16, 2025

Federalism and EVs

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Three years after President Biden signed the bipartisan infrastructure law, it has resulted in only 58 ERV charging stations. Marc J. Dunkel...
Sunday, January 26, 2025

State Push Against Incumbent Administration

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Many posts have discusse d federalism .  Bruce Mehlman : States Increasingly Battle Washington, Further Squeezing Business. Regardless of ...
Sunday, September 22, 2024

A Failure to Communicate

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Law enforcement  in the United States is  decentralized  and fragmented.  Sometimes  the system  works well.  Sometimes lack of coordination...
Monday, February 19, 2024

Spoiled Sunshine: Perceptions of California

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  A Leger survey for the LAT finds that 29% of Americans -- and 48% of Republicans think that California is "not really American."...
Monday, January 29, 2024

The United States as Singular and Plural

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LEE MM, ZHANG N, HERCHENRÖDER T. From Pluribus to Unum? The Civil War and Imagined Sovereignty in Nineteenth-Century America. American Poli...
Sunday, January 28, 2024

Immigration and the Supremacy Clause

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Many posts have discussed immigration .  Ian Millhiser at Vox: Last Monday, the Supreme Court made its first foray into a longstanding c...
Friday, January 19, 2024

Deadly Failure in Uvalde

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Law enforcement  in the United States is  decentralized  and fragmented.  Sometimes  the system  works well. During the  Uvalde Massacre , i...
Sunday, November 26, 2023

Libertarian Rating of States

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Many posts have discussed differences among the states, with special emphasis on California and Texas . William Ruger and Jason Sorens ...
Tuesday, August 15, 2023

RICO

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 James C. McKinley Jr. at NYT : At the heart of the indictment against Mr. Trump and his allies in Georgia are racketeering charges under t...
Thursday, June 1, 2023

The California Effect and Red State Pushback

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At NYT, Conor Dougherty reports that California Assembly Member Buffy Wicks (D) declined to run for the House because she could accomplish m...
Tuesday, May 23, 2023

TikTok, Montana, and the Dormant Commerce Clause

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 Montana has banned TikTok, which is suing . 119. The Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution grants Congress the power to regulate commer...
Friday, May 5, 2023

Marijuana Policy Problems

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 Zusha Elinson  and Jimmy Vielkind at WSJ: The illegal marijuana trade is booming in California, seven years after the state legalized its ...
Wednesday, March 1, 2023

Student Debt Relief and Biden v. Nebraska

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Katherine Knott at Inside Higher Ed : Several Supreme Court justices appeared skeptical of the Biden administration’s plan to forgive up to...