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

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

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

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

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

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

For decades, voters and organizations have successfully brought lawsuits against racially discriminatory voting rules under Section 2 of the civil rights law. A federal appeals court has suddenly ...

A number of President Trump’s recent actions, including cryptocurrency transactions, real estate deals, and interactions with foreign officials, have raised legal questions related to the Constitution ...

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 Originally enacted in 1792, the law grants the president the authority to deploy the U.S. military domestically and use it against Americans under certain ...

Election officials were some of the biggest heroes of the 2020 election. After a grueling year that saw a pandemic, unprecedented disinformation efforts, and the highest turnout in over a century, ...

New research shows that a restrictive voting law in Texas made people less likely to vote for at least two years after having a mail ballot application or ballot rejected. As we showed in 2022, the ...

You’re read­ing The Brief­ing, Michael Wald­­­­­man’s weekly news­­­­­­­­­let­ter. Receive it in your inbox. Sixty years ago this month, the Senate passed the Voting Rights Act, a historic ...