Julie Williams, the second in command and chief counsel of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, is perhaps the bank regulatory agencies' leading defender of preemption. Bankers should read ...

Knife preemption laws are quietly redrawing the map of who governs everyday life in your city. As state legislatures... The ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- It's not exactly the Rebel Alliance attempting to raid the Death Star, but the city of Houston wants to challenge the state of Texas over a law that critics unofficially named ...

State politicians are silencing the public, removing local obstacles to irresponsible growth and overdevelopment, and clearing the way for graft.

This alert summarizes the Executive Order’s key provisions and analyzes its potential impact on existing and proposed state laws. The Executive Order contemplates a two-stage approach to preemption: ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Roger Valdez writes about housing economics and policy. Feb 07, 2024, 09:30am EST State legislatures shouldn't hesitate to use ...

Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court upheld the state laws that prevent municipalities from enacting their own laws to regulate firearms, saying in a unanimous decision Wednesday that the city of Philadelphia ...

When the Supreme Court accepted Watters v. Wachovia Bank for review and amicus curiae ("friend of the court") briefs came in from all corners, much appeared to be at stake. The case suggests a fray ...

Wohlstetter Conference Center, Twelfth Floor, AEI 1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036 Once-esoteric questions involving the federal preemption of state law (especially state tort law ...

As the Biden Administration pursues its characteristic “whole-of-government” approach to decarbonizing our economy, Berkeley, California, has prohibited the installation of fuel gas pipes in new ...

This article appears in the February 2024 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here. There’s nothing historically novel about America’s politics dividing along urban vs. rural or ...