The Senate is currently debating the Freedom to Vote: John R. Lewis Act, a bill that combined two pieces of historic legislation introduced last year. This transformative democracy reform package ...
While states and cities can choose to help enforce federal law, the 10th Amendment means that the U.S. government can’t force them to do so. Only weeks after federal immigration raids set off chaos in ...
Congress surrendered its most powerful check over the Department of Homeland Security earlier this month when it added $70 billion for immigration enforcement to the agency’s already massive budget.
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 ...
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 ...
The federal government’s SAVE tool is prone to error, and its misuse risks disenfranchising Americans and eroding trust in elections. This year, observers should be wary of voter fraud claims made by ...
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 ...
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 ...
This was originally published by CQ Researcher. The ruling in Trump v. United States is an affront to democracy and the rule of law, forfeiting critical checks on executive power. It undermines ...
You’re reading The Briefing, Michael Waldman’s weekly newsletter. Click here to receive it every week in your inbox. In January 2010, just days after the Supreme Court ruled in Citizens United ...
The Treasury Department’s inspector general recently issued a report warning that the IRS’s purchase of GPS location data may be unconstitutional in light of a landmark 2018 Supreme Court decision ...
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 ...
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