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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
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Education
School choice big winner in Oklahoma primary elections
School choice played a prominent role in several state legislative races across Oklahoma this month.Ray Carter | June 24, 2024
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Judicial Reform
Oklahoma Supreme Court gets it right, still blunders
The Oklahoma Supreme Court’s decision to vacate a restraining order against a street preacher, while not perfect, is good news for those who speak their mind—especially online.Ryan Haynie | June 14, 2024
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Law & Principles
Drummond criticizes bar association
Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond and 20 other state attorneys general say the standards imposed by the American Bar Association (ABA) for accreditation of law schools violate constitutional prohibitions on discrimination and should be junked.Ray Carter | June 11, 2024
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Higher Education
OU should end race-based discrimination
“The University of Oklahoma determines how much financial aid it gives to students based on their race,” a new lawsuit alleges. “That is unlawful.”Jonathan Small | June 3, 2024
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Law & Principles
Oklahoma legislative session ends with few major accomplishments
State lawmakers passed some culturally conservative measures this year. But they left a Democratic group in charge of judicial selection and shelved tax cuts in favor of massive government-spending hikes.Ray Carter | May 31, 2024
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Education, Culture & the Family
Bill allowing Bible classes during school sent to governor
Legislation that provides a framework for schools to allow students to take religious or moral instruction from an outside provider during the school day has cleared its final legislative hurdle.Ray Carter | May 29, 2024
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Education
HB 1425 could improve student attendance, moral training
If HB 1425’s only benefit is to improve student attendance, it will be a success. And if the moral instruction students access because of the law impacts their outlook and lives in broader ways, that’s even better.Jonathan Small | May 21, 2024
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Criminal Justice
Child rapist who spurred McGirt decision set to go free
Oklahoma has “a two-tiered system of justice now, depending on your race.”Jonathan Small | May 20, 2024