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Mark Templeton on the Showdown Between Exxon And State AGs
It is a fairly significant test of the ability of states attorney generals to hold corporations accountable for their actions related to climate, with far-reaching consequences for the United State...
William Baude Co-Authors New Constitutional Law Casebook
Each edition, including the third, has reflected a fairly substantial overhaul that has made the book (I think) better and better, but it has retained a basic organizing principle that sets it apar...
Jotwell Features Jennifer Nou's "Bureaucratic Resistance from Below" and "Taming the Shallow State"
Post-inauguration, Nou argues that the level of bureaucratic resistance to the Trump administration seems “unprecedented” in its “open defiance” of the President.
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Eric Posner: Governors Can Fight Back Against President Trump's Politicization of the Pandemic
In the context of the pandemic, federalism has allowed President Trump to indulge his worst tendencies. States depend on the federal government to confront disease outbreaks like the coronavirus pandemic. In the early days of Covid-19, state and local officials weren’t in a position to foresee the scope of the threat or control the levers that could have suppressed it.
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