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 ...

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 ...

Since May, the Justice Department has sent letters or emails to at least 34 states requesting details about voters, election officials, and election administration processes, with 30 states receiving ...

Months of unprecedented actions signal that the Trump administration is pursuing a concerted strategy to undermine the next election. One part of that effort is an ongoing attempt to collect voter ...

Michael Li is senior counsel in the Brennan Center’s Democracy Program, where his work focuses on redistricting, voting rights, and elections. Prior to joining the Brennan Center, Li practiced law at ...

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 ...