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June 10, 2025
Your town, their rules
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March 25, 2025
LGBTQ Agenda: Advocates warn preemption doctrine stifling progress toward equality
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March 25, 2025
March 20, 2025
Florida's GOP-led Legislature aims to limit the power of city, county governments
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February 25, 2025
Who Runs Your City? Not You, If the GOP Has Its Way
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February 4, 2025
Red states, following Trump’s lead, pursue sweeping immigration measures
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January 31, 2025
State preemption is a key to Trump’s illegal immigration crackdown
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October 16, 2024
Preemption Playbook: Big Tech’s Blueprint Comes Straight from Big Tobacco
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September 4, 2024
Organizing the South—How Black Workers Are Challenging Corporate Power
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May 7, 2024
The Missouri legislature is cutting local governments’ power to pass their own laws
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February 22, 2024
A Potent Weapon for Red States to Undermine Reform Prosecutors
February 22, 2024
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February 14, 2024
With Florida seen as solidly Republican red, DeSantis and GOP clamp down on blue cities
February 14, 2024
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February 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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January 11, 2024
States increasingly join the land use reform rodeo
January 11, 2024
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November 27, 2023
Antagonisms flare as red states try to dictate how blue cities are run
November 27, 2023
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November 13, 2023
After fierce debate, Texas ‘death star’ law has yet to be used in Houston, other big cities
November 13, 2023
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October 11, 2023
Less Politics Is Local: States Get Increasingly Aggressive About Pre-Emption
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October 6, 2023
Abortion debate spurs new efforts to restrict prosecutorial discretion
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August 29, 2023
Bad Laws? Texas Attorneys Are Fighting 6 Bills Set to Take Effect This Week
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August 2, 2023
Reformist DAs Sue Georgia Over Law to Remove Elected Prosecutors – Including One Probing Donald Trump
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July 21, 2023
How Florida’s new industry-backed landlord tenant law will affect Orange County renters
July 21, 2023
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July 12, 2023
San Antonio should join Houston in lawsuit opposing state’s ‘Death Star’ bill
July 12, 2023
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July 9, 2023
City Sues State Over New Preemption Law
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July 5, 2023
How Preemption Laws Are Changing the Landscape for Local Government Affairs
July 5, 2023
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July 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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June 28, 2023
Texas Wrests Power From Local Governments With Sweeping New Law
June 28, 2023
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