State supreme courts issue hundreds of decisions every year affecting voting rights, reproductive care, protections related to the criminal justice system, and other state constitutional rights. With ...

UPDATE: On April 22, 2026, the Ninth Circuit granted the federal government’s motion for an injunction pending appeal, blocking California from enforcing its mandatory identification law that was ...

Pregnant women experiencing medical emergencies have been turned away from hospitals in states that ban abortion, despite a ...

The episode began after a November 2025 special election on a ballot measure to redraw California’s congressional districts.

Pregnant women experiencing medical emergencies have been turned away from hospitals in states that ban abortion, despite a ...

Jack Landau is a Distinguished Jurist in Residence at Willamette University College of Law and an adjunct professor of law at Lewis and Clark Law School. He retired from the Oregon Supreme Court in ...

Although the death penalty is legal for federal crimes, the validity of the punishment under state constitutions and statutes ...

Bryna Godar is a staff attorney for the State Democracy Research Initiative at University of Wisconsin Law School, which filed an amici curiae brief in Evers v. Marklein on behalf of a group of legal ...

This article is part of a series about the relationship between state and federal law. President Donald Trump’s new administration has made a high priority of pursuing mass deportation of undocumented ...

State high courts continue to settle disputes over voting and election processes, including obstacles to by-mail voting — and to define the right to vote under their own constitutions. While some ...

Voters approved state constitutional protections for reproductive rights. Now, courts are interpreting what they mean — and not just in cases about abortion. Over the past two and a half years, ...

In 1921, the Tulsa Race Massacre claimed the lives of an estimated 300 Black Oklahomans. The riot was triggered by false allegations that a young Black man working as a shoe shiner had assaulted a ...