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A Conversation with Michigan Supreme Court Justice Elizabeth Welch
Justice Elizabeth Welch was elected to the Michigan Supreme Court in 2020 and took the bench in January 2021. In her interview, Welch discusses the challenges of artificial intelligence, Michigan’s protection of natural resources, and the potential value in career disappointments.
The Other Declarations of 1776
A number of states adopted constitutions, including Declarations of Rights, the same year the nation was born.
State Law Gives Litigators Extra Tools to Counter Originalism
Unique features of state courts allow lawyers to go beyond arguments available in federal courts.
The Untold Story of 150 Years of Women in State Judiciaries
A focus on the U.S. Constitution and federal judges has obscured a longer and more complex history of women serving on state benches — and how state constitutions mattered in their rise.
Montanans for Nonpartisan Courts v. Knudsen
Montana Supreme Court rejected Attorney General's proposed ballot statement for ballot initiative enshrining nonpartisan judicial elections in the state's constitution
City of Kalispell v. Doman
Montana Supreme Court affirmed obstruction conviction for defendant arrested for failing to comply with police’s orders to move away from a traffic stop he was filming on his phone
League of Women Voters of Utah v. Utah State Legislature (LWV 1)
Utah Supreme Court dismissed legislators' appeal from trial court ruling that struck the state's congressional map. Lower court said law the map was enacted under violated a fundamental right of voters to alter or reform their government — recognized by the Utah high court earlier in the case — by repealing a redistricting-reform initiative, and subsequently adopted plaintiffs' proposed alternative map
Nicholson v. State
Missouri Supreme Court held that addition of a provision allowing the attorney general to immediately appeal preliminary injunctions against the state during the enactment of a 2025 statute, altered the bill's original purpose to modify judicial review of ballot measure language
McNabb v. Harrison
Tennessee Supreme Court held the state constitution requires a candidate running for municipal judge to be a resident of the same municipality to which he will be assigned, both at time of the election and for one year prior; litigation continues on remand
