Feb. 11, 2026
State law against federal power: How federalism is rewriting civil rights strategy
As damages remedies against federal officials wither, constitutional violations are increasingly recognized but left without a forum, pushing civil rights lawyers to look to state law not as interference but as a means of restoring accountability.
K. Chike Odiwe
Civil Rights Attorney
The Law Offices of Kenneth C. Odiwe, PC
2880 Zanker Road, Ste 203
San Jose , CA 95134
Fax: (669) 315-4431
Civil rights law rarely collapses all at once. It narrows.
It tightens. It retreats by increments until one day practitioners realize that
the tools they relied upon no longer function the way they once did. The shift
often hides behind technical language. Courts reaffirm constitutional
principles while quietly dismantling the mechanisms that give those principles
force.
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