Theme page
Legislative checks
The legislature’s capacity to constrain executive power.
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- Events in this demo
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- States with an event
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- Categories in this theme
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- Most in one year
2008–2024
Sample data
Of 50
Sample data
Of 33 overall
In 2023
Sample data
Over time
The shape of this theme
Events coded to legislative checks across 17 years and 48 states. On the finished site this curve is what a reader checks before asking whether their own state is unusual.
Synthetic counts. The shape carries no claim about this theme.
Categories
What rolls up to this theme
- Emergency powers extension73
- Redistricting process irregularity63
- Legislative session curtailment46
- Preemption of oversight authority44
Where
States with the most
Sample counts, not a ranking of states.
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More on legislative checks
How it is coded
What qualifies an event for this theme, and how coders decide between neighbouring categories.
Read the methodology