The 2026 midterms — the year also marking the 250th anniversary of the United States — include elections for every member of the U.S. House of Representatives, one-third of the U.S. Senate, many state ...

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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 ...

The Connecticut Supreme Court’s six-factor test for construing the state constitution has frequently resulted in greater criminal procedural protections than under its federal counterpart.

Dmitry Bam is a professor of law at the University of Maine School of Law.

In 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, ruling that the U.S. Constitution does not protect a fundamental right to abortion. Following ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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