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

Regulations Introduction Researchers recognize that there are a number of problems relying on pages in the Federal Register. It is not a good indicator of the state-federal relationship alone. There are short but costly rules, for example, while there are also very lengthy rules that do not cost much to enforce. One researcher notes, in a humorous example, that the Federal Register often contains blank pages - sometimes numbering in the thousands. Apparently, this was due to