Should Local Governments Have Greater Autonomy from State Governments?

Glenn Reynolds, Splitsylvania: State Secession and What to do About it?, available at SSRN.Richard Schragger, The Attack on American Cities, 96 Tex. L. Rev. 1163 (2018). Ilya Somin Recent years have seen extensive focus on legal and political conflicts between states and the federal government. Dissenting states seek greater autonomy from federal dictates. Ongoing legal battles over Obamacare and sanctuary cities are just the latest examples of this phenomenon. But we have also seen a lesser well-known trend of conflict between states and local governments. Two new articles, by prominent legal scholars on opposite sides of the political spectrum contend that local governments should have greater autonomy from states. They make a solid case that could be even stronger if each side were more able to acknowledge the concerns of the other. There is a long history of academic analysis of state-local relations, and scholars such as Yale Law School Dean Heather…

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