Following two days of turbulent protests over ICE raids in Los Angeles County, President Trump issued a memorandum on ...

The department has reversed course, abandoning much of its inherited voting rights caseload and leaving the state of Section ...

Presidents have deployed troops to control civil unrest only 30 times before in U.S. history. The Posse Comitatus Act ...

The legislation would make it harder for judges to hold defiant parties, including government officials, in contempt.

For decades, voters and organizations have successfully brought lawsuits against racially discriminatory voting rules under ...

Last week in the Oval Office, the president was peeved when a reporter shared an acronym apparently used on Wall Street: TACO ...

The National Guard plays a crucial role in the United States, both in its capacity as a reserve component of the armed forces and as a versatile asset that state governors can call on in times of ...

Trump and Speaker Johnson mislead again about election integrity. You’re read­ing The Brief­ing, Michael Wald­­­­­man’s weekly news­­­­­­­­­let­ter. Click here to receive it in your inbox. The Brennan ...

New research shows that a restrictive voting law in Texas made people less likely to vote for at least two years after having a mail ballot application or ballot rejected. As we showed in 2022, the ...

The president is wrong about what an invasion is — and what powers it triggers. The truth turned out to be worse. Trump’s migration-as-invasion theory permeates his executive orders and other ...

On March 25, 2025, the president issued an executive order titled Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections. The executive order, among other things, directs the Election ...