Alison LaCroix Discusses Federalism and States’ Rights on WCPT 820
WCPT 820 Interview: Alison LaCroix
Edwin Eisendrath is joined by Allison LaCroix, the Robert Newton Reid Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School.
LaCroix discussed the evolving nature of federalism and states' rights. She explained that federalism involves distributed power among national, state, and local governments, tracing its roots to the British Empire and the American colonial period.
"What we have now, in 2025, through the text of the Constitution, actual practice and lived governance and cases coming from the Supreme Court says, yes, in fact, states are real," LaCroix told WCPT. "They have a domain that they can operate in and are supposed to operate in, and that domain doesn't totally overlap with the national government. And there are things that the national government can do, there are things the states can do, and that's not an overlapping set of things.
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