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Feb 4, 2025
Red states, following Trump’s lead, pursue sweeping immigration measures
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State preemption is a key to Trump’s illegal immigration crackdown
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Oct 16, 2024
Preemption Playbook: Big Tech’s Blueprint Comes Straight from Big Tobacco
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Sep 4, 2024
Organizing the South—How Black Workers Are Challenging Corporate Power
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The Missouri legislature is cutting local governments’ power to pass their own laws
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Feb 22, 2024
A Potent Weapon for Red States to Undermine Reform Prosecutors
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With Florida seen as solidly Republican red, DeSantis and GOP clamp down on blue cities
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Feb 6, 2024
Pre-Preemption – Conservative states have now taken to blocking liberal cities from even thinking about legislating on behalf of their residents.
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States increasingly join the land use reform rodeo
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Nov 27, 2023
Antagonisms flare as red states try to dictate how blue cities are run
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After fierce debate, Texas ‘death star’ law has yet to be used in Houston, other big cities
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Less Politics Is Local: States Get Increasingly Aggressive About Pre-Emption
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Abortion debate spurs new efforts to restrict prosecutorial discretion
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Aug 29, 2023
Bad Laws? Texas Attorneys Are Fighting 6 Bills Set to Take Effect This Week
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Reformist DAs Sue Georgia Over Law to Remove Elected Prosecutors – Including One Probing Donald Trump
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Jul 21, 2023
How Florida’s new industry-backed landlord tenant law will affect Orange County renters
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Jul 12, 2023
San Antonio should join Houston in lawsuit opposing state’s ‘Death Star’ bill
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Jul 9, 2023
City Sues State Over New Preemption Law
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Jul 5, 2023
How Preemption Laws Are Changing the Landscape for Local Government Affairs
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Jul 3, 2023
City of Houston Sues State of Texas Over New Local Government Preemption Law
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Houston sues state in attempt to block new law that erodes cities’ power
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Jun 28, 2023
Texas Wrests Power From Local Governments With Sweeping New Law
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Jun 7, 2023
Mickey Mouse, Death Stars and the limits of federal law
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Jun 3, 2023
States Are Silencing the Will of Millions of Voters
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May 11, 2023
State Efforts to Undercut Local Governance Widen in Scope
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Apr 27, 2023
Texas GOP's new anti-democracy bill is so bad, people are calling it the Death Star
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Apr 13, 2023
The Tennessee Expulsions Are Just the Beginning
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Apr 11, 2023
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Mar 27, 2023
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Mar 17, 2023
Red States Crack Down on Local Control of Law Enforcement
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