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Explainer: Wisconsin Supreme Court Set to Consider Fate of “Mini Legislature”

Posted on March 25, 2025

Derek Clinger, Senior Staff Attorney PDF Available Here Published: March 25, 2025 In recent decades, the Wisconsin Legislature has increasingly empowered legislative committees, rather than its full membership, to wield control over state agencies and …

Posted in Explainers, Featured, Research & ExplainersTagged State Constitutions, State Courts, Wisconsin

Explainer: Wisconsin Supreme Court Race

Posted on March 12, 2025

Bryna Godar, Staff Attorney Bree Grossi Wilde, Executive Director PDF Available Here Published: March 12, 2025 Updated: March 14, 2025 On April 1, 2025, Wisconsin voters will choose the newest justice on the Wisconsin Supreme …

Posted in Explainers, Featured, Research & ExplainersTagged State Courts, Voting and Elections, Wisconsin

Explainer: The Proposed Voter ID Constitutional Amendment on Wisconsin’s April Ballot

Posted on February 24, 2025

Bryna Godar, Staff Attorney PDF Available Here Published: February 24, 2025 On Wisconsin’s April 1, 2025, spring election ballot, voters will see a proposed constitutional amendment asking whether to add a voter ID requirement to …

Posted in Explainers, Featured, Research & ExplainersTagged Direct Democracy, State Constitutions, Voting and Elections, Wisconsin

Election-Litigation Data: 2018, 2020, 2022, 2024 State and Federal Court Filings

Posted on February 17, 2025

Following the 2024 election, we updated our survey of election-related lawsuits to help understand the role of litigation in our elections. This update underscores key themes from our survey of litigation from 2018 to 2022: litigants continue …

Posted in Research, Research & ExplainersTagged Multi-state, State Courts

Explainer: North Carolina Supreme Court Election Protest

Posted on December 20, 2024

Emily Lau, Staff Attorney PDF Available Here Last Updated: February 21, 2025 More than a month after the November 2024 election, the result of the North Carolina Supreme Court race is still uncertain. There have …

Posted in Explainers, Featured, Research & ExplainersTagged Judicial Elections, North Carolina, State Courts, Voting and Elections

Explainer: Lame-Duck Power Grabs in North Carolina and Beyond

Posted on December 11, 2024

Derek Clinger, Senior Staff Attorney PDF Available Here Just weeks after North Carolina Democrats won several prominent statewide offices in the 2024 general election, including governor, lieutenant governor, and attorney general, the Republican-controlled legislature moved …

Posted in Explainers, Research & ExplainersTagged North Carolina, State Constitutions, State Legislatures

Research Note: Laches in State Court Election Cases

Posted on October 11, 2024

Harry Isaiah Black, Staff Attorney Published: October 11, 2024 Link to PDF Ahead of Election Day 2024, courts—and especially state courts—continue to be inundated with election-related lawsuits. As in 2020, courts may see a deluge …

Posted in Research, Research & ExplainersTagged Multi-state, State Courts, Voting and Elections

Explainer: The Proposed Constitutional Amendment on Noncitizen Voting on Wisconsin’s November General Election Ballot

Posted on October 7, 2024

Bree Grossi Wilde, Executive Director PDF Available Here As part of the November 5th election, Wisconsin voters will be asked for the fifth time this year whether to amend the Wisconsin Constitution. In April, voters …

Posted in Explainers, Featured, Research & ExplainersTagged Direct Democracy, State Constitutions, Wisconsin

Spotlight on Democracy: The Michigan Supreme Court’s 2023-2024 Term

Posted on August 13, 2024

By Derek Clinger, Senior Staff Attorney* PDF Available Here The Michigan Supreme Court finished its 2023-2024 term in July, wrapping up a year in which the court decided several cases that will likely leave lasting …

Posted in Explainers, Featured, Research & ExplainersTagged Michigan, State Courts

Direct Democracy in State Court: Judicial Approaches to Ballot Initiative Conflicts

Posted on August 9, 2024

Allie Boldt, Legal Research Director Published: August 9, 2024 Link to PDF Introduction In roughly half of U.S. states, state constitutions confer rights of direct democracy, allowing the people to make law directly through statutes …

Posted in Featured, Research, Research & ExplainersTagged Direct Democracy, Multi-state, State Constitutions, State Courts, Voting and Elections
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