Legal Progress

Legal Progress is the legal policy program at the Center for American Progress. No matter the issue—health care, immigration, marriage equality, offshore oil drilling, privacy, ethics—the judiciary will continue to play an increasingly important role in the lives of hardworking Americans as well as in the success of the progressive legislative agenda. Through legal and policy analysis, communications and public education and convening key stakeholders, Legal Progress is helping to push the American legal system in a more progressive direction and educate the public about the impact of the courts on issues they care most about.

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State or Federal Court? Fact Sheet
The U.S. Supreme Court building is seen in Washington on February 13, 2016. (AP/Jon Elswick)

State or Federal Court?

A guide to distinguish the differences and similarities between state and federal courts, and explain the challenges that exist for both court systems’ processes.

Anisha Singh, Billy Corriher

Keeping Campaign Cash Out of North Carolina Courts Fact Sheet
Signs of coal ash swirl in the Dan River after a spill at the Dan River Power Plant in Eden, North Carolina, on February 5, 2014. (AP/Gerry Broome)

Keeping Campaign Cash Out of North Carolina Courts

The repeal of public financing for judicial candidates could give corporate polluters and other donors more influence in North Carolina courts.

Billy Corriher, Sean Wright

Discrimination? Corporate Loopholes? Law Avoidance? Hobby Lobby’s Potentially Slippery Slope Fact Sheet

Discrimination? Corporate Loopholes? Law Avoidance? Hobby Lobby’s Potentially Slippery Slope

A poorly decided Hobby Lobby ruling has the ability to dramatically redefine religious liberty from a fundamental value that protects genuine religious beliefs to a loophole that can be used to discriminate and create unfair advantages in the corporate world.

Joshua Field

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