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This case asks whether the State of New Mexico鈥檚 actions enabling pollution from oil and gas extraction, and its failure to control that pollution, violate the New Mexico Constitution鈥檚 Pollution Control Clause, Inherent Rights Clause, Due Process Clause, and Equal Protection Clause. Our brief urges the New Mexico Supreme Court to answer those questions by retiring its 鈥渋nterstitial approach鈥� to state constitutional interpretation鈥攚hich looks first to federal doctrine when interpreting state constitutional provisions that arguably have U.S. Constitutional analogues鈥攁nd instead interpreting the New Mexico Constitution holistically and independently. This independent approach, we explain, will ensure that New Mexicans can enjoy鈥攁nd enforce鈥攖he rights guaranteed to them in their unique founding document.

From blocking unconstitutional orders to mobilizing millions, here鈥檚 how we fought back and what comes next.

President Donald Trump is threatening to invoke the act, which is a rarely used power that Congress intended only for extreme emergencies. We break down what this means for our civil liberties.

This case asks whether government officials who intentionally violate the law are immune from damages suits under a state statute governing such suits, and if so, whether the statute itself violates the Open Courts Clause of the Utah Constitution. Utah鈥檚 Open Courts Clause, like similar provisions in thirty-nine other states across the country, protects an individual鈥檚 right to seek judicial remedies for wrongs committed against them. It therefore serves as an important tool that does not exist in the U.S. Constitution to hold government actors accountable.