All Articles tagged State Supreme Court
- State Constitutional Commentary
December 24, 2024 EDT This Panel examined historical and current judicial selection methods of state supreme courts around the nation, noting the importance state high courts play in upholding democratic ideals.
- State Constitutional Commentary
December 24, 2024 EDT This Essay examines redistricting lawsuits before state high courts, focusing on partisan gerrymandering cases, an area that has fallen to state courts to police since the 2019 Rucho SCOTUS decision.
- State Constitutional Commentary
November 10, 2024 EDT This Article traces the history of the Georgia Supreme Court and election of its justices, arguing that the current system produces a dynasty of jurists who are selected, not elected.
- State Constitutional Commentary
June 13, 2024 EDT This Article shows that ideological competition over selection methods continues in several states, which ostensibly provide supreme court elections, but in practice nearly always appoint their justices.
- State Constitutional Commentary
March 18, 2020 EDT This article aims to tackle the issue of women as chief justices in State Supreme Court in the Trump era.
- State Constitutional Commentary
September 13, 2019 EDT This article presents an examination of the current common frameworks shared by the states for addressing judicial conduct appealing to popular social and political influences.
- State Constitutional Commentary
September 13, 2019 EDT This article reviews the history and purposes behind the single-subject rule, examines how state courts have applied it; and reflects on the failure of the rule to achieve its goal.
- State Constitutional Commentary
September 13, 2019 EDT This article examines the possible role of ideology in the split decisions and the relative importance of the divided opinions.
- State Constitutional Commentary
December 13, 2017 EDT Instead of building a new, independent state constitutional law, state supreme courts still rely primarily on federal doctrine with only occasional state decisions offered on an ad hoc basis.
- State Constitutional Commentary
December 02, 2015 EDT This study extends both the interdependent assumptions of social network analysis and the policy diffusion literatures to state supreme courts by examining education policy diffusion.
- State Constitutional Commentary
August 08, 2010 EDT This study argues that state constitutional content—the basic rules of the game—influences the business of state supreme courts when it comes to civil appeals.
- State Constitutional Commentary
August 08, 2010 EDT This study discusses the judicial restraint employed by federal and state courts, and that of the Rhode Island Supreme Court, while also analyzing current voting trends and statistics of the...
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May 08, 2009 EDT This article argues in favor of a constitutional amendment in New York instituting a local merit-based appointment system for state supreme court justices.