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Since 2010 dozens of U.S. states considered or passed laws aimed at blocking “Sharia” or foreign/religious law; databases count between roughly 201 and 233 anti‑Sharia/anti‑Muslim bills introduced acr...
No U.S. state has “passed Sharia law” as a parallel legal system; instead, more than a dozen states have enacted laws or ballot measures intended to block courts from applying “Sharia,” “foreign,” or ...
Several states have enacted laws or amendments that bar courts from applying “Sharia” or broader “foreign/international” law; prominent examples cited in reporting include Alabama, Arizona, Kansas, Lo...
Anti‑Sharia and “foreign‑law” restrictions have been proposed in roughly two dozen states; a handful of states enacted versions of the American Laws for American Courts (ALAC) model and related measur...
State-level "anti‑Sharia" measures are a patchwork: dozens of bills were introduced nationwide and a significant number of states passed laws or ballot measures prohibiting courts from applying "Shari...
Available sources show that several state legislatures continued to consider bills referencing “Sharia” or “foreign law” after 2020, often using model language from American Laws for American Courts; ...
Several states passed laws or constitutional amendments aimed at banning “Sharia” or foreign law; courts and civil-rights groups have repeatedly challenged and sometimes blocked those measures . Repor...
As of the materials in the provided reporting, U.S. states have a patchwork of “foreign law” or so‑called anti‑Sharia measures that were passed in roughly eight states in the early 2010s and many more...
A wave of state-level measures explicitly aimed at blocking from American courts spread across statehouses in the 2010s, driven largely by a model bill and activists; courts and legal groups have repe...
Federal courts have repeatedly struck down or blocked state measures that explicitly target “” as unconstitutional, finding such laws unmoored from any demonstrated problem and likely violative of the...
Muslim American organizations have uniformly opposed anti‑Sharia laws through coordinated legal challenges, public education campaigns, and advocacy framing the statutes as unnecessary and discriminat...
Federal courts successfully blocked and ultimately struck down high-profile state measures banning "Sharia" or broadly forbidding foreign or religious law, most notably Oklahoma’s 2010 State Question ...
Since 2020, federal and state courts have continued a pattern of skepticism toward laws and amendments aimed specifically at “Sharia” or broadly banning foreign or religious law, frequently finding su...
Several states proposed anti‑Sharia or foreign‑law bans that ultimately failed in legislatures or were struck down by courts; notable examples include Idaho, where a bill failed repeatedly after 2016,...
Federal courts have repeatedly been the battleground for challenges to state “anti‑Sharia” laws: plaintiffs have sued, and federal judges and appeals courts have blocked or struck down prominent measu...
Anti‑Sharia proposals and laws in the U.S. have produced measurable political and social impacts: courts and civil‑rights groups say the measures stigmatize Muslim communities and can create legal con...
Anti‑Sharia measures have been a prominent state‑level phenomenon since about 2010: reporting and research groups count roughly 194–233 state bills introduced since 2010, with about 18–20 laws enacted...
Anti‑Sharia bills in U.S. state and federal legislatures are presented as safeguards against foreign or religious law, but reporting and legal analyses show they primarily stigmatize and marginalize M...
Typical anti-Sharia proposals in U.S. states aim to bar courts and government actors from applying *Islamic or foreign religious law* when it would conflict with constitutional rights, and some federa...