Expanding Rights in State Courts

Exterior view of the New York Court of Appeals building in Albany, N.Y. June 1, 2016.

After Dobbs and other Supreme Court decisions that restrict rights, Eyal Press, contributing writer at The New Yorker and the author of Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America (Macmillan, 2021), talks about renewed efforts to focus on the rights found in individual state constitutions.

"Can State Supreme Courts Preserve—or Expand—Rights?" (New Yorker, June 3, 2024)