Voters will decide whether to amend their state constitutions on topics that include voting, abortion, transgender rights, ...

Suggested Citation: Alicia Bannon, Should Courts Strike Down Unconstitutional Ballot Measures Before They Go to Voters? , ...

Campaign finance ballot measures are up for a vote in key states as public frustration with the role of money in politics grows. With vast amounts of money flowing to political candidates and ...

Penny Mack is a program associate in the Brennan Center’s Elections and Government Program, where she focuses on money in politics and election security.

The Connecticut Supreme Court, like many other state high courts, has long embraced the principal that “the federal constitution sets the floor, not the ceiling, on individual rights.” “Decisions of ...

After a quarter-century ceasefire, the education wars have returned to Ohio. In June, a state trial court granted summary judgment in favor of public school districts and families that challenged Ohio ...

Hon. 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 ...

This interview is part of a series of conversations with state judges and justices. Justice Todd Eddins was appointed to the Hawaii Supreme Court in 2000 after spending three years as a state circuit ...

Oregon’s constitution is a story of transformation. What began as an utterly conventional document tainted by racism and an ...

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 ...

Ohio’s court of appeals affirmed a trial court in holding that the state’s recently expanded EdChoice school voucher program violates the state constitution’s requirement of “a thorough and efficient ...