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Judicial Reform
The Oklahoma Supreme Court or Oklahoma law: one is absurd
Judicial overreach by the Oklahoma Supreme Court threatens the separation of powers that is the foundation of the American political system.Ryan Haynie | September 11, 2024
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Judicial Reform
In Arkansas, conservative Supreme Court makes major difference
The Arkansas Supreme Court now has a conservative majority that adheres to the law and the constitution rather than legislating from the bench. This has already had a real-world impact when it comes to addressing major state challenges.Ray Carter | September 9, 2024
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Judicial Reform
Oklahoma Supreme Court confuses issues to achieve its favored result
Several decisions of the Oklahoma Supreme Court are not only bad as a matter of policy, but also are bad as a matter of law. Many of the justices are simply not skilled at judging.Ryan Haynie | September 9, 2024
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Judicial Reform
Oklahoma Supreme Court’s creativity reduces legal certainty
The Oklahoma Supreme Court’s creative thinking leaves Oklahoma businesses and citizens without legal certainty.Jonathan Small | September 9, 2024
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Judicial Reform
Oklahoma Supreme Court has been dismantling work-comp reform
The Oklahoma Legislature enacted comprehensive workers’ compensation reform, but the Oklahoma Supreme Court has been rolling it back.Curtis Shelton | September 6, 2024
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Judicial Reform
Liberal activists target state Supreme Court races
Liberal activists are targeting state Supreme Court races across the country, but not in Oklahoma. Why? Perhaps because the Oklahoma Supreme Court has already been rated one of the nation’s most liberal.Ray Carter | September 4, 2024
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Judicial Reform
Oklahoma Supreme Court legislates on abortion
After the Dobbs decision, abortion advocates asked state courts to exercise raw judicial power. Unsurprisingly, those advocates found an ally in the Oklahoma Supreme Court.Ryan Haynie | September 3, 2024
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Judicial Reform
Democrat judges defy Oklahoma’s GOP trend
Oklahomans may be surprised to learn that nearly half the members of the Oklahoma Supreme Court were appointed by Democrat governors.Ray Carter | September 3, 2024
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Judicial Reform
Oklahoma Supreme Court finds (yet another) way to make policy
Oklahoma has a state legislature. It passes laws. This is foundational to representative government and based in popular sovereignty. But often the Oklahoma Supreme Court doesn’t like it.Ryan Haynie | August 15, 2024
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Judicial Reform
Oklahoma Supreme Court rewrites an insurance contract
Many Oklahoma Supreme Court justices have an uncanny ability to find ambiguity in statutes and contracts where none exists. They consistently employ this special power to expand legal liability and assist plaintiffs in their quest for damages.Ryan Haynie | August 7, 2024
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Judicial Reform
Oklahoma Supreme Court justices are legislating from the bench
The Oklahoma Supreme Court controls dictionary definitions with the untethered freedom of a fiction writer—and does so after a law has been passed. That effectively makes the Court both the legislative and judicial branch in one entity.Jonathan Small | August 5, 2024
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Judicial Reform
Another example of the Oklahoma Supreme Court’s problematic use of the ‘special law’ provision
We’re starting to see a pattern here: The prohibition on special laws is frequently used by the Oklahoma Supreme Court to strike down laws it deems politically unpalatable.Ryan Haynie | August 1, 2024
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Law & Principles
Despite its precedent, Oklahoma Supreme Court allows minimum-wage initiative to proceed
Once again, it seems that the Oklahoma Supreme Court ignored its own precedent in order to reach a policy conclusion it preferred—without giving the public a good explanation of why. Are you seeing a pattern yet?Ryan Haynie | July 24, 2024
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Judicial Reform
Oklahoma Supreme Court errs on religious school decision
For too long, activist judges have falsely claimed a ban on state favoritism of religion requires active state opposition to religious entities. Sadly, it appears a majority of Oklahoma Supreme Court justices have adopted that stance.Jonathan Small | July 22, 2024
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Judicial Reform
Tort-reform case shows how Oklahoma Supreme Court acts like a super-legislature
Setting policy is not the job of the judicial branch. And yet the Oklahoma Supreme Court continues to inject itself into the policymaking process.Ryan Haynie | July 19, 2024
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Law & Principles
Drummond wants law schools to obey the law
Is it too much to ask that law schools obey the law? Apparently, the American Bar Association thinks it is.Jonathan Small | July 15, 2024
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Judicial Reform
Oklahoma Supreme Court sets its own policy to allow schools to mask children
The Oklahoma Supreme Court often makes rulings based on whatever its members feel justify their preferred outcome. Such was the case in a recent case on school masks.Ryan Haynie | July 12, 2024
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Law & Principles
Tribal court decried as farce
Some Freedmen descendants say two new appointments have been made to the Muscogee (Creek) Supreme Court in order to stack the deck against the black plaintiffs.Ray Carter | July 11, 2024
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Judicial Reform
Oklahoma Supreme Court struggles with basic vocabulary
The Oklahoma Supreme Court is legislating from the bench again. In this instance, the Court decided it would just completely change the meaning of a word.Ryan Haynie | June 27, 2024
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Education, Law & Principles
Oklahoma Supreme Court blocks religious charter school, but reinforces private-school-choice legality
The Oklahoma Supreme Court has ruled that the Oklahoma Constitution prohibits the Catholic Church from operating a state charter school. But the court majority’s decision also reinforced the legality of private-school-choice programs that put parents in control.Ray Carter | June 25, 2024