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 ...

Public safety has long been treated as the near-exclusive province of law enforcement agencies. This is unsurprising given that police are tasked with countless challenging and sometimes dangerous ...

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 ...

Starting after the 2010 election, legislators in nearly half the states passed a wave of laws making it harder to vote. These new restrictions ranged from cuts to early voting to burdens on voter ...

A new study shows a growing racial voter turnout gap. It’s compelling evidence that voter suppression laws are devastatingly effective. You’re read­ing The Brief­ing, Michael Wald­­­­­man’s weekly ...

The Trump administration has said that it is reviewing all 55 million people with valid visas to visit, live in, or work in the United States for potential deportation violations, including through ...

In 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision in Shelby County v. Holder, striking down the Voting Rights Act’s formula for determining which states and localities should be required to get ...

This article first appeared at Just Security. On March 8, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents arrested Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University student and a prominent leader of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation’s blueprint for a conservative administration, proposed a number of actions that would transform criminal justice policy at the federal level. They are likely to ...