September federalism news: elections, state-federal litigation, governors’ principles, energy and environmental conflicts, and new scholarship.

Primary author: Noah Farnsworth In This Edition The Supreme Court and the justices’ evolving approach to federalism. Source: The New York Times Introduction American federalism is shaped by many forces, far from Washington: in state legislatures, in towns and cities, by citizens, through state and local agencies, intergovernmental organizations, and in hundreds of courts across the country. Most of the evolution of federalism happens in these routine, distributed settings. Bu