In March 2025, two members of the DOGE team communicated with a political advocacy group that was seeking to “find evidence ...

The Fourth Amendment stands for the principle that the government generally may not search its people or seize their belongings without appropriate process and oversight. Today, we are at a ...

The Constitution gives states and Congress the power to run elections, and the president has virtually no role in the process. Yet President Trump ignored this fact and issued an executive order in ...

In the wake of President Donald Trump’s bombing and regime-change operation in Venezuela, administration officials and lawmakers supporting the action have defended its legality. Some have analogized ...

Election deniers have targeted certification as a way to interfere with election results, but there are legal protections in place against such efforts. Certification — the statutory process by which ...

X (formerly Twitter) thread on the Failed Section 702 Reauthorization Vote in the Senate and the Appointment of Bill Pulte as Acting Director of National Intelligence (@LizaGoitein; June 5, 2026) X ...

The president has no constitutional authority over federal election administration. Rather, state and local officials are charged with administering elections, serving voters, and counting ballots to ...

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 ...

Election deniers are abusing voter roll procedures, using false claims of widespread fraud to contest people’s eligibility to be on the rolls or cast a ballot. Since 2020, mass voter challenges have ...

The following is adapted from a Brennan Center resource on social media monitoring by the U.S. government. Social media has become a significant source of information for U.S. law enforcement and ...

Police quotas don’t make communities safer — they prevent officers from focusing on larger public safety issues. As some local police leadership says, “get your numbers up,” and you’ll be rewarded ...