Page 42 - State Constitutions News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

A 6-to-3 majority empowers North Carolina’s supreme court to establish what the law means in the Tar Heel State.

Of course state supreme courts have the right to judge whether election laws conform to state constitutions.

One basic check on independent elections remains protected against conservative attacks. joining our conversation is neal katyal, the former acting solicitor general, supreme court lawyer who made the oral arguments on behalf of becky harper, common cause and the other voters in today's supreme court victory. andrew's with us as well. congratulations and please tell us what this was about, what was at stake? >> thank you so much. it's a really exciting day, not least of all for me but most of all for american democracy. the republican national committee went to the supreme court and said state...

The Kansas Capital Habeas Office recently told why it should be allowed to represent convicted quadruple murderer James Kraig Kahler in a lawsuit.

What is your read of that case and how you think it will kind of pan out? >> in california we have some of the strongest protections for reproductive freedom, bodily autonomy, choice and access to health care. we enshrined in our constitutions this past november that right in california state constitutions. we go to wherever the fight is on reproductive freedom, whatever is under attack, whenever it's being denied. individuals shoot who should have access to it, communities of color, vulnerable communities women are being hurt unharmed we want to be there in that fight. the fight was where it ...