Federal vs. State Power

A federal judge has blocked proposed U.S. Postal Service rules that responded to an executive order from President Trump; among the proposals was a plan to refuse ma...

The U.S. Justice Department has sent warnings to several states, including Washington, asserting that state motor vehicle authorities are refusing or pausing issuanc...

The U.S. Supreme Court issued a 5–4 decision upholding a Mississippi statute that permits counting mail-in ballots received after Election Day if they were postmarke...

The U.S. Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision in Watson v. Republican National Committee, held that states may count mail ballots that were cast (i.e., postmarked) by El...

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 7-2 that the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) expressly preempts a Missouri plaintiff’s state-law failure-to-...

California Attorney General Rob Bonta filed a lawsuit challenging the Environmental Protection Agency's decision to submit four California vehicle-emissions waivers ...

The Department of Justice, through its voting-rights enforcement office led by Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon, has sought an unredacted electronic cop...

The U.S. Supreme Court, in a 7–2 decision in Monsanto Co. v. Durnell, held that the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) precludes state-law f...

The U.S. Supreme Court, in a 6-3 decision, reinstated the murder conviction of Pedro Hernandez for the 1979 disappearance of 6-year-old Etan Patz, reversing a decisi...

The Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against the Commonwealth of Virginia challenging two recently passed state laws that limit aspects of federal immigration e...

The U.S. Department of Justice filed suit against the Commonwealth of Virginia challenging two laws signed by Governor Abigail Spanberger that take effect July 1. On...

The article details a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision rejecting the Trump administration's emergency request to deploy National Guard troops to Chicago, Illinois,...