

SLoG Law
Mar 24, 20228 min read
Litigating Gerrymandering in the Post-Rucho World: State Law and Political Maps, Part 1
While some of our readers are deep in the weeds on redistricting after Rucho v Common Cause, the Supreme Court’s 2019 decision that...


Sarah L. Swan
Mar 18, 20221 min read
Swan's Picks: Troubled elections, international cities, and a battle for local control in Tennessee
Today's installment includes stories from outside the United States, along with domestic stories that touch on some of the most timely...


Sarah L. Swan
Mar 11, 20221 min read
Swan's Picks: changes in public education, preventing violence, and entrenched polarization
The Little-Known Violence Prevention Tool Cropping Up in Cities Across the Country Barbershop Confrontations, Profane Signs and Despair:...


Russell Wheeler
Mar 4, 20225 min read
State Judges and Trump's Campaign to Upend the 2020 Election
Russell Wheeler, Visiting Fellow, Governance Studies Program, The Brookings Institution. This is an abbreviated and updated version of a...


Sarah L. Swan
Mar 4, 20221 min read
Swan's Picks: This week, stories from New Jersey, Florida, Kentucky, and more.
This week's Swan's Picks spans a range of topics and a number of regions, highlighting interesting and important stories in state and...


Meryl Chertoff
Feb 28, 20227 min read
SALPAL and SLoGLaw Host Conversation on Foot Voting and Mobility with Ilya Somin and Commentators
We're delighted that SLoGLaw partnered with Georgetown's Project on State and Local Government Policy and Law (SALPAL) for a panel...


Sarah L. Swan
Feb 25, 20221 min read
Swan's Picks: Gerrymandering, local journalism, and civil liberties are in the headlines this week
“Red states are remaking the civil liberties landscape” Like here, where Texas targets trans kids …and Texas has important District...


Sarah L. Swan
Feb 18, 20221 min read
Swan's Picks: Preemption, infrastructure, and zoning feature in this week's highlights
Welcome to the second installment of Swan's Picks! Catch up on some state and local news before the weekend arrives. The Florida House...


Richard Schragger
Feb 17, 20224 min read
Local Control of Land Use: A Partial Defense
The Perils of Land Use Deregulation, my intervention in the land use/housing debate, has now been published by the University of...


Sarah L. Swan
Feb 11, 20221 min read
New Feature! Swan's Picks (+ A Few More)
Welcome to a new weekly blog feature on SLoG – a round-up of interesting, important and sometimes absurd stories in state and local...


Zachary Price
Jan 27, 20225 min read
The Fifty States' Varied Laws on Prosecutorial Nonenforcement
Prosecutorial discretion has become a political battleground in state and local government. Among other initiatives, reform prosecutors...


Meryl Chertoff
Jan 26, 20226 min read
SCOTUS Decision in OSHA Case: Without Incremental Agency Strategy, Bad Law and Worse Opinions
Some of the Justices at SCOTUS have been reading author (and Sixth Circuit Chief Judge) Jeffrey Sutton. The Court’s per curiam decision...


Clay Gillette
Jan 19, 20224 min read
In "Foxconned" A Cautionary Tale of Economic Development Incentives
In some academic circles, the phrase “local economic development incentives” has become an oxymoron along the lines of “military music”...


David J. Toscano
Jan 13, 20225 min read
The Legislatures Strike Back: The Pandemic and Balances of Power
We are delighted to share this post from a former Virginia legislative leader, David J. Toscano. This is the latest in our Field...


Vanessa Casado Pérez
Jan 12, 20224 min read
Ignored Sidewalk Policy
The pandemic lockdowns shed light on the state and relevance of our sidewalks. When we could go nowhere, we could walk, exercise, play,...


Meryl Chertoff
Jan 6, 20225 min read
Harrisburg COVID-19 Response Is No Model
Omicron notwithstanding, rising COVID-19 vaccination rates in the US means that an end at least to the acute phase of the pandemic may...


Paul Diller
Jan 4, 20224 min read
Taking a Jab at the Legal Issues for Vaccine Passports
Following a practice that originated in Israel and Denmark before spreading more widely through Europe, several big “blue” cities in the...


Slog Law Blog
Dec 23, 20211 min read
Relax
SLoGLaw Blog, and its human capital, will take a brief hiatus, now to January 4. We'll let half the country nurse mild COVID-19 omicron...


Laura Napoli Coordes
Dec 20, 20214 min read
What’s So Special About Special Districts?
Recently, I’ve become fascinated by special districts, independent government units created for a specific, limited purpose. These...


Ilya Somin
Dec 13, 20214 min read
Texas State Court Rules SB 8 Enforcement Mechanism is Unconstitutional
The ruling is mostly based on the Texas state constitution and probably will not affect the federal case challenging SB 8, currently...


Daniel Farbman
Dec 9, 20215 min read
Sanctuary, Abolitionism, and the Role of Local Governments in Resistance Movements
A few weeks ago Mason, Ohio voted to make itself a new kind of “sanctuary city” by banning abortions and threatening to punish anyone...
davidschleicher
Dec 7, 20218 min read
"Only the Rich Can Play" and Place-Based Policies
Cross Posted at the Niskanen Center This book review is about people v. place-based policies at the federal level (and Congress) but,...


Meryl Chertoff
Dec 6, 20215 min read
Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Case in CA Highlights Industry Role in Escalating Punitive Preemption
We’ve lifted up the work of SLoGLaw Blog contributors Rich Briffault and Erin Scharff on punitive pre-emption in earlier posts of this...


Darrell A.H. Miller
Dec 3, 20213 min read
Montgomery Facing Litigation for Renaming Street after Civil Rights Leader
Montgomery, Alabama, seat of state government, site of the famous Bus Boycott that helped launch the Civil Rights Movement, and home to...