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- 1From:Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports and Issue BriefsThe U.S. Constitution establishes a system of dual sovereignty between the states and the federal government. Although the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution designates federal law as supreme to state law, other...
- 2From:Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports and Issue BriefsDecember 15, 2022 For over a decade, United Nations (U.N.) member countries have discussed creating an international legal framework to address marine biodiversity on the high seas. The high seas comprise about 95% of...
- 3From:AEI Paper & StudiesIn 2008, AEI released a comprehensive Public Opinion Study on attitudes about the federal government from the earliest days of polling. This new study updates some of the major trends that appeared in the 2008 report....
- 4From:Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports and Issue BriefsSeptember 7, 2022 Under Section 208 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), codified at 8 U.S.C. [section] 1158, a non-U.S. national (alien as the term is used in the INA) who is physically present in the United...
- 5From:Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports and Issue BriefsSeptember 28, 2022 As the effects of the recent sharp decline in cryptocurrency prices, or "crypto winter," spread to the dockets of bankruptcy courts, those courts face a novel legal question: Are crypto account...
- 6From:Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports and Issue BriefsFebruary 2, 2021 States and local governments traditionally lead U.S. economic development efforts, with the federal government selectively intervening to address significant need. However, the 2019 Coronavirus Disease...
- 7From:Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports and Issue BriefsUpdated April 22, 2021 The U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims (CAVC) provides the exclusive forum for veterans and other claimants, such as veterans' surviving spouses, to appeal U.S. Department of Veterans...
- 8From:Yearbook of European LawI. Introduction The growth of administrative integration in the European Union (EU) challenges the protection of individual rights. As the system of EU governance has expanded administrative interdependencies between...
- 9From:Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports and Issue BriefsJune 3, 2020 The field of fiscal federalism studies how to divide responsibilities (including finances) among federal, state, and local governments to improve economic efficiency and achieve various public policy...
- 10From:Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports and Issue BriefsFebruary 21, 2020 Overview Jurisdictions with "sanctuary" policies have been controversial for decades, highlighting a tension between federal agencies charged with immigration enforcement, and states and localities...
- 11From:Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports and Issue BriefsThe U.S. Constitution establishes a system of dual sovereignty between the states and the federal government, with each state having its own government, endowed with all the functions essential to separate and...
- 12From:AEI Paper & StudiesEconomic volatility varies substantially across democracies. We study how the difference between federal and unitary systems of government can contribute to such variation. We show empirically that a higher degree of...
- 13From:Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports and Issue BriefsMay 4, 2018 On April 19, 2018, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (Seventh Circuit) upheld a nationwide preliminary injunction blocking the Department of Justice (DOJ) from implementing two new...
- 14From:Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports and Issue BriefsOn October 2, 2017, the Supreme Court is to begin its new term. While the Court issued a number of notable decisions during its last full term, Court watchers have largely agreed that, at least compared to recent terms,...
- 15From:Yearbook of European LawIn its combative Ajos judgment recently rendered by the Danish Supreme Court, the court openly and controversially challenged the authority of the CJEU. By the same token, in the preliminary ruling by the CJEU preceding...
- 16From:Yearbook of European LawThis article provides an outline of the application of European Union (EU) law by Portuguese courts during the first two and a half decades of Portugal's membership of the EU. It starts by tracing the evolution of...
- 17From:AEI Paper & StudiesExecutive Summary Aconsent decree is a judge's order, entered after a voluntary agreement between parties to a law-suit. Unlike an ordinary judgment, which awards relief or dismisses a case and then ends the court's...
- 18From:AEI Paper & StudiesIn most AEI monthly Political Reports, we focus on national issues. But a poll in the Heartland Monitor series from Allstate and National Journal about people's views of their local communities caught our attention, and...
- 19From:Encyclopedia of World BiographyBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY Herbert Clark Hoover (1874-1964), thirty-first president of the United States, could not halt the severest economic depression in American history because his governmental theories prevented him...
- 20From:Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports and Issue BriefsP.L. 114-94, the Fixing America's Surface Transportation (FAST) Act, was signed by President Obama on December 4, 2015. The act reauthorizes federal highway and mass transit programs through the end of FY2020. It also...