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

With 112 days to go until Election Day, President Trump’s drive to undermine the vote continues. As time runs short, his ...

Compared to other democracies, the United States is an outlier in granting life tenure to justices, producing diminishing returns and mounting costs. The average term length of U.S. Supreme Court ...

You’re read­ing The Brief­ing, Michael Wald­­­­­man’s weekly news­­­­­­­­­let­ter. Click here to receive it in your inbox. At his press conference on the U.S. military operation in Venezuela to ...

The midterms are just months away, yet the Trump administration has spent the last year systematically slashing agency staff and scuttling initiatives responsible for detecting and disrupting foreign ...

A newspaper reports on challenges of Black voters in Wake County, North Carolina. The Daily State Journal (Alexandria, VA), July 29, 1872 (Library of Congress). The first laws allowing private ...

This article first appeared in Just Security. Throughout his campaign, President Donald Trump referred to unlawful migration as an “invasion.” Some interpreted this language as a purely rhetorical ...

This article was first published by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on February 18. When the FBI raids an office, any office, it looks like someone is up to something bad. The Jan. 28 raid of the ...

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 ...

In the 2024 election cycle, voters nationwide had to contend with the threat of being unjustly removed from the voter rolls, stricter ID requirements to cast their ballots, and long lines on Election ...

Several high-profile individuals have made false claims that noncitizens are voting in large numbers and that those votes are distorting American election outcomes. States have multiple checks in ...

You’re reading The Briefing, Michael Waldman’s weekly newsletter. Click here to receive it in your inbox. Yesterday, The New York Times reported that President Trump personally ordered Director of ...