{"id":6712,"date":"2024-11-27T20:20:34","date_gmt":"2024-11-28T01:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.khflaw.com\/news\/?p=6712"},"modified":"2025-01-03T20:24:22","modified_gmt":"2025-01-04T01:24:22","slug":"legal-intelligencer-dont-settle-for-the-minimum-finding-constitutional-claims-closer-to-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.khflaw.com\/news\/legal-intelligencer-dont-settle-for-the-minimum-finding-constitutional-claims-closer-to-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Legal Intelligencer: Don\u2019t Settle for the Minimum: Finding Constitutional Claims Closer to Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The U.S. Constitution, which remains the bedrock of American civil rights, serves to establish a minimum level of protection that states are bound to uphold. Some state constitutions provide more expansive and detailed protections for state residents\u2014meaning that rather than treating state constitutional claims as an afterthought, litigants can center their claims on state constitutions when those state constitutions offer more favorable grounds to secure their rights.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In the November 27, 2024 edition of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/thelegalintelligencer\">The Legal Intelligencer<\/a>, Edward Kang writes, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/thelegalintelligencer\/2024\/11\/27\/dont-settle-for-the-minimum-finding-constitutional-claims-closer-to-home\/\">Don\u2019t Settle for the Minimum: Finding Constitutional Claims Closer to Home.<\/a>&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.khflaw.com\/news\/legal-intelligencer-dont-settle-for-the-minimum-finding-constitutional-claims-closer-to-home\/#more-6712\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading \u203a<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Constitution, which remains the bedrock of American civil rights, serves to establish a minimum level of protection that states are bound to uphold. Some state constitutions provide more expansive and detailed protections for state residents\u2014meaning that rather than treating state constitutional claims as an afterthought, litigants can center their claims on state constitutions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":6510,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[414],"tags":[336],"coauthors":[535],"class_list":["post-6712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-publications","tag-legal-intelligencer","publication_lawyer-edward-t-kang"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Legal Intelligencer: Don\u2019t Settle for the Minimum: Finding Constitutional Claims Closer to Home &#8212; Kang Haggerty News &#8212; November 27, 2024<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The U.S. Constitution, which remains the bedrock of American civil rights, serves to establish a minimum level of protection that states are bound to &#8212; November 27, 2024\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.khflaw.com\/news\/legal-intelligencer-dont-settle-for-the-minimum-finding-constitutional-claims-closer-to-home\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Legal Intelligencer: Don\u2019t Settle for the Minimum: Finding Constitutional Claims Closer to Home &#8212; Kang Haggerty News &#8212; November 27, 2024\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The U.S. Constitution, which remains the bedrock of American civil rights, serves to establish a minimum level of protection that states are bound to &#8212; November 27, 2024\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.khflaw.com\/news\/legal-intelligencer-dont-settle-for-the-minimum-finding-constitutional-claims-closer-to-home\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Kang Haggerty News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-11-28T01:20:34+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-01-04T01:24:22+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/localhost\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/E.-Kang-Article-Alert.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"627\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Edward T. 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