The Buckeye Institute filed public comments with the Ohio Supreme Court, urging the court to adopt proposed amendments to the common pleas statistical reporting form, writing, “For more than a decade, The Buckeye Institute has championed commonsense public safety reforms. Unfortunately, Ohio’s balkanized court system makes it difficult for stakeholders and policymakers to obtain reliable data on criminal cases necessary for effective policymaking. The proposed amendments to the common pleas statistical reporting form take a small but meaningful step to resolve this data deficiency.”

The Buckeye Institute filed its brief asking the Ohio Supreme Court to accept jurisdiction in DuPuis v. AFSCME, and either hold it pending the court’s decision in Sheldon v. OAPSE or consolidate it with Sheldon—one of The Buckeye Institute’s other cases seeking to end union wage theft practices that is pending Ohio Supreme Court review. “In Sheldon, Vanderveer, and DuPuis, only the Ohio Supreme Court can decide whether Ohio’s courthouse doors are open to Ohioans wishing to bring cases to stop union wage theft.” 

The Buckeye Institute submitted comments to the American Bar Association Council on Law School Accreditation, urging reforms to accreditation standards to focus on student outcomes. The Buckeye Institute writes, “The ABA Standards are overbroad, burdensome, and focus on process rather than student outcome. The accreditation process itself lacks definitiveness and transparency, allowing regulators to take an ‘I know it when I see it’ approach to rule enforcement, which increases compliance costs and stifles academic freedom, institutional innovation, and competition.”

The Buckeye Institute filed its amicus brief in Beaird v. United States, calling on the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn Stinson v. United States and restore the limits Congress placed on the U.S. Sentencing Commission. In its brief, The Buckeye Institute argues that the court should eliminate Stinson deference, which has elevated the commentary portion of the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines to the equivalent of binding law, something Congress did not authorize.

This comment, submitted by The Buckeye Institute, supports repealing the American Bar Association’s Standard 303(c) requirement that law schools must mandate bias training to receive ABA accreditation, arguing the mandate exceeds accreditation’s proper scope and imposes ideological uniformity on law schools. 

The Buckeye Institute commented on the May 2026 jobs report from the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services, saying, “While Ohio’s unemployment rate is significantly lower than the national average of 4.3 percent, the gradual decline in the labor force participation rate remains a concern as unemployed workers leave the job market.” Buckeye urged lawmakers to “cut government spending to sustain economic growth and put more money in the pockets of Ohioans.”

Ohio has emerged as a leading state for data center development, which has attracted billions of dollars in economic growth and provided a blueprint for other states to attract investment, according to a new report from The Buckeye Institute in partnership with National Taxpayers Union released Wednesday. The report, written by Aswin Prabhakar, economic research analyst at The Buckeye Institute, highlights four policies Ohio got right.

In Crain’s Cleveland Business, The Buckeye Institute offers solutions that Ohioans expect—and should demand—from their electricity providers, regulators, and policymakers, writing, “Ohio policymakers now need to pursue reforms that will reduce transmission costs by encouraging competition, streamlining the permitting process and making the energy grid more transparent for consumers and regulators. Good reforms lead to good results. And those results should include affordable, abundant energy for every Ohio home and business.”

The Buckeye Institute filed its fifth amicus brief in Texas Top Cop Shop v. Blanche, urging the U.S. Supreme Court to grant review and combine this case with National Small Business United v. Bessent, and overturn the Corporate Transparency Act—an Orwellian federal surveillance program of small businesses. “The Corporate Transparency Act is a sweeping, ill-advised, and misleadingly-named law that gives the federal government power to collect private information on small business owners.”

The Buckeye Institute testified before the Ohio Select Committee on Data Centers. In his testimony, Greg R. Lawson, a senior research fellow at The Buckeye Institute, noted that “legitimate constituent concerns about data center proliferation cannot be ignored,” but reminded lawmakers what is at stake for Ohio and the country and urged them to adopt policies that will secure “America’s digital infrastructure and win[ ] the race for advanced computing technology.”