States across the country are revisiting laws that bar courts from enforcing foreign legal codes when those codes conflict with constitutional rights. The fight is less about symbolism than about who governs here: elected lawmakers under the U.S. Constitution, or imported legal standards that voters never approved.
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A legal challenge to a ballot drive targeting Arizona's school choice program is putting petition integrity, election administration, and the future of Empowerment Scholarship Accounts back in the center of state politics. The case matters for more than one initiative, because if signature fraud allegations hold up in court, the entire referendum strategy against ESA expansion takes a direct hit.
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Ohio officials say a multistate voter fraud investigation uncovered evidence tied to eight states, a reminder that election crime is usually narrow, specific, and still serious. The policy question is not whether every election is stolen. It is whether states are willing to build systems transparent enough to catch bad actors fast and prove the rest of the vote was clean.
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