Expanding Rights in State Courts

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jun 4, 2024

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)

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