The administration’s plans to fight crime by dictating state bail policy or deploying the National Guard won’t build ...

The administration’s plans to fight crime by dictating state bail policy or deploying the National Guard won’t build ...

And Landry acknowledged that she couldn’t even be sure that those 79 were actual cases of ineligible votes being cast — some ...

In the wake of serious abuses, the 2024 law improves transparency and accountability in the nation’s largest prison system.

On Saturday, Trump stated in a Truth Social post, “Chicago about to find out why it’s called the Department of WAR.” The post ...

The line between public service and private gain continues to blur as financial elites secure pardons and regulatory leniency ...

After reviewing state voter rolls going back to the 1980s, Louisiana’s Republican secretary of state announced this month that “non-citizens illegally registering or voting is not a systemic problem ...

Concerns over the risks have led to a near-universal opposition on the left, but some are asking whether it’s wise to take that option off the table. Over the past few decades, conservative activists ...

More than 10 federal courts have temporarily halted or rejected actions by the new Trump administration on issues ranging from spending to birthright citizenship. Dozens more lawsuits against the ...

Editor’s note: A recap of 2021’s voting laws as well as a look at voting legislation planned for 2022 can be found here. The 2020 federal election drew the United States’ highest voter turnout in more ...

The Trump administration’s recently passed budget bill massively increases money for immigration enforcement, based in part on the myth that immigrants are responsible for increases in violent crime.

You’re read­ing The Brief­ing, Michael Wald­­­­­man’s weekly news­­­­­­­­­let­ter. Receive it in your inbox. President Trump has threatened to send troops to Chicago to “straighten that one out.” New ...