Kansas
Kansas Supreme Court reverses felony and misdemeanor convictions for man claiming he was unable to pay $20 fee when filling out offender registry form.
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Duke Energy was the first SC utility to apply for program that makes it easier to raise power bills on an annual basis.
Commentary
Requiring congressional district boundaries to hew closely to county lines could help end the redistricting wars, writes Brad Van Arnum. (Photo by Ashley Murray/States Newsroom)
Georgia
Starting next summer, Georgia’s highest court will no longer routinely hear appeals in murder cases. The decision was announced Thursday as part of a concurring opinion from Chief Justice Nels Peterson that was tied to a murder case out of Fulton County, Coleman v. The State, though it was not clear why Peterson’s opinion was […]
Commentary
While the nation faces various stress tests for the rule of law upon which our country was built, Missouri courts are facing their own stress test in the hot mess of our current congressional redistricting. Our Legislature redrew our congressional maps in 2025 at the insistence of President Donald Trump. The chief aim was to […]
Commentary
A federal courtroom in Concord has once again become the center of a national argument over who is an American citizen. On Aug. 11, the American Civil Liberties Union and other groups asked the U.S. District Court in New Hampshire to block President Donald Trump’s latest effort to restrict birthright citizenship. The filing came just […]
Commentary
Kentucky’s new license plate camera law is now in effect, and it already looks out of step with the Constitution. Just before it took effect, the U.S. Supreme Court handed the commonwealth a warning its lawmakers cannot afford to ignore. On June 29, the Court ruled in Chatrie v. United States that police conduct a […]
Colorado
Every three days, Kathleen Sullivan Kelley hauls water from the town of Meeker to fill a 500-gallon tank at her ranch in Rio Blanco County. Kelley’s horses used to drink from ponds on the property, but there’s no longer any surface water, and she and her husband, Reed, sold the last of the 200 cows […]
California
(The Center Square) – The Liberty Justice Center filed an amicus brief asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review a case challenging a Maryland public school district's policy that requires teachers to use students’ preferred pronouns, claiming that the policy violates the constitutional rights of teachers and parents.
New Jersey
A conservative law firm is targeting state guidance on parental notification if their child attempts to change gender at school.
