Protecting Rights in State Courts

Introduction

A quiet legal revolution now under way has lawyers and judges reading the fine print in their state constitutions. As a result, there's been a dramatic increase in the number of cases decided on state rather than federal constitutional grounds. This new “judicial federalism” began as a reaction to an increasingly conservative U.S. Supreme Court, but it has since won plaudits from some conservatives who favor handing decisions over to the states.

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