How should state court judges and the lawyers who practice before them interpret state constitutions? Justice Clint Bolick of the Supreme Court of Arizona discusses the importance of state constitutions and relates principles for properly interpreting them in the latest video in the Federalist Society’s new series, Briefly: The FedSoc Review.

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Learn more about Hon. Clint Bolick:
Justice, Supreme Court of Arizona
https://fedsoc.org/contributors/clint-bolick

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Related Links & Differing Views:

The Federalist Society Review
https://fedsoc.org/federalist-society-review

Hon. Clint Bolick, “Principles of State Constitutional Interpretation”
https://fedsoc.org/commentary/publications/principles-of-state-constitutional-interpretation

Steven Twist & Len Munsil, “The Double Threat of Judicial Activism: Inventing New ‘Rights’ in State Constitutions”
https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/arzjl21&div=48&id=&page=

Goodwin Liu, “State Courts and Constitutional Structure”
https://www.yalelawjournal.org/review/state-courts-and-constitutional-structure

Jason Mazzone, “Radical State Constitutionalism”
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=%203723699
Nick Elhi, “State constitutions vex conservatives’ strategies for a post-Roe world”
https://montanafreepress.org/2022/02/17/state-constitutions-vex-conservatives-strategies-for-a-post-roe-world/