The Trump administration’s reported authorization of 600 military lawyers to act as temporary immigration judges would deprive immigrants of a fair hearing and further erode the line between the ...

Supreme Court watchers preview pivotal cases on voting rights, fair representation, and presidential power. This year’s Supreme Court term will be a historic one for the future of presidential power ...

A half-century eroded those constraints. The Supreme Court gutted the campaign finance laws and narrowed the definition of bribery. During Trump’s first term, it became clear that the guardrails were ...

Shifts in congressional process, rising violence and distortions of money in politics render making change even harder for today’s freshmen than for their predecessors. As a result of the changes ...

The administration’s plans to fight crime by dictating state bail policy or deploying the National Guard won’t build long-term safety, but there are many evidence-based ways to reduce crime.

And Landry acknowledged that she couldn’t even be sure that those 79 were actual cases of ineligible votes being cast — some may have been incorrectly identified as a result of data errors or outdated ...

Last Monday, President Trump posted on social media that he would sign an executive order aimed at eliminating mail voting. It would be his second executive order on elections, following a March ...

The Trump administration’s recently passed budget bill massively increases money for immigration enforcement, based in part on the myth that immigrants are responsible for increases in violent crime.

This article was first published at Just Security. Following two days of turbulent protests over ICE raids in Los Angeles County, President Trump issued a memorandum on Saturday night purporting to ...

The deployment is a risky and unnecessary political stunt. You’re read­ing The Brief­ing, Michael Wald­­­­­man’s weekly news­­­­­­­­­let­ter. Receive it in your inbox. For years, we have warned ...

The Alien Enemies Act does not apply to U.S. citizens, irrespective of whether they are the natives or dual citizens of a foreign belligerent. Japanese internment, however, targeted both U.S. citizens ...

The 2024 federal election cycle was the most secretive since the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision in 2010. Dark money groups, nonprofits and shell companies that spend on elections without ...