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Topic: federalism

Voting booths are set up at the Orange County Supervisor of Elections Office on the first day of early voting for the 2022 midterm general election in Orlando. (Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

A bulwark against nationalized elections

Alexander Shur, Votebeat - Votebeat
President Trump, sitting alongside Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and First Lady Melania Trump, observes U.S. Army tanks traveling down Pennsylvania Avenue, during a celebration of the U.S. Army's 250th anniversary and his birthday on Flag Day, June 14, 2025 in Washington. (Tom Brenner For The Washington Post via Getty Images)

States' rights, but only for GOP states

Heather Digby Parton
Texas Governor Greg Abbott (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

SCOTUS welcomes a Texas dictatorship

Amanda Marcotte
Former US President Donald Trump speaks to supporters during a Farmers for Trump campaign event at the MidAmerica Center on July 07, 2023 in Council Bluffs, Iowa. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

States' rights backfire on GOP in Fulton

Stefanie Lindquist - The Conversation
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Abortion rights advocates demonstrate in front of the Supreme Court of the United States in Washington, DC, United States on December 01, 2021. (Yasin Ozturk/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

After Kansas vote: Hope in the states

Austin Sarat
Sen. Mike Braun (R-IN) speaks during a Senate Budget Committee hearing in the Hart Senate Office building on February 17, 2022 in Washington, DC. The committee heard testimony about Warrior Met Coal’s ongoing miner strike which has lasted since April 2021 over demands for better pay and benefits. (Photo by (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

GOP senator says SCOTUS wrong on Loving

Sophia Tesfaye
A federal officer watches a crowd of protesters during a standoff between the two groups at the Mark O. Hatfield U.S. Courthouse on July 21, 2020 in Portland, Oregon. State and elected officials have called for the federal officers to leave Portland as clashes between protesters and federal police continue to escalate. (Nathan Howard/Getty Images)

Portland lawsuits and things to come

Sarah J. Adams-Schoen - The Conversation
Gavin Newsom, Donald Trump, and Andrew Cuomo (AP Photo/Getty Images/Salon)

Trump versus the states

Jennifer Selin - The Conversation
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Public school teachers and their supporters protest against a pension reform bill at the Kentucky State Capitol. (Getty/Bill Pugliano)

How the GOP won state power

Chauncey DeVega
(AP/Alex Brandon)

DeMint wants constitutional convention

Taylor Link
FILE - In this Feb. 9, 2017, file photo, Attorney General Jeff Sessions holds a meeting with the heads of federal law enforcement components at the Department of Justice in Washington. When President Donald Trump spoke to the National Prayer Breakfast this month, he underscored his vow to defend the religious rights of the conservative Christians who helped propel him to power. Now, they expect the Justice Department under Sessions will reposition itself as a champion of what they see as that religious freedom. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, Pool) ((AP Photo/Susan Walsh, Pool)

Sessions wants more assets

Phillip Smith - Alternet
(AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Bill Ritter, Jr. - The Conversation
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Gail Ablow - BillMoyers.com
Charles Murray

The GOP's Scientology strategy

Heather Digby Parton
(AP/Jacquelyn Martin/Chris Carlson)

Anatomy of a racist revolution

Conor Lynch
Rand Paul (AP/Stephan Savoia)

Tea Party's embarrassing irony

Elias Isquith
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