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The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, for example, explained that “Massachusetts law provides no authority” for its officers “to arrest and hold an individual solely on the basis of a Federal civil immigration detainer.”

The federal marijuana prohibition does not alter that conclusion, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has explained, because when state voters decriminalize marijuana possession, they also “curtail … police authority to enforce the Federal prohibition.”

As the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court explains, this freedom to interpret state constitutional rights more broadly than federal constitutional rights is “fundamental to the vigor of our Federal system of government.”

Last month, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court sent a case brought by eight of the school’s faculty members to trial, writing that their claims have merit: “Tenure would seem to be a hollow promise if it came without any salary commitment.”

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court sided with Brookline, noting that cities and towns “have a lengthy history of regulating tobacco products to curb the well-known, adverse health effects of tobacco use.”