The Trump administration has detained multiple members of Congress who were attempting to perform their oversight duties.

The Insurrection Act needs a major overhaul. Originally enacted in 1792, the law grants the president the authority to deploy the U.S. military domestically and use it against Americans under certain ...

Following two days of turbulent protests over ICE raids in Los Angeles County, President Trump issued a memorandum on ...

Presidents have deployed troops to control civil unrest only 30 times before in U.S. history. The Posse Comitatus Act ...

The department has reversed course, abandoning much of its inherited voting rights caseload and leaving the state of Section 2 voter discrimination litigation fraught.

Martial law has been declared more than 60 times in U.S. history, mostly by state and local officials. However, the concept has no established definition. The limited Supreme Court precedent on ...

The legislation would make it harder for judges to hold defiant parties, including government officials, in contempt.

Last week in the Oval Office, the president was peeved when a reporter shared an acronym apparently used on Wall Street: TACO ...

Lauren-Brooke Eisen is the senior director of the Brennan Center’s Justice Program, where she leads the organization’s work to reduce the United States’ reliance on incarceration. Her team focuses on ...

A federal judge in Texas made news in January when he allowed a suit filed by Idaho, Kansas, and Missouri to proceed against the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of medication abortion, based ...

Federal and state policymakers must rise to the challenge artificial intelligence poses to safe, secure elections and responsive, accountable governance. Without proper safeguards and reforms, ...

The 2024 election cycle saw nationwide spending by the biggest donors climb ever higher, as it has since the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision in 2010. Super PACs funded by a few megadonors ...