While states and cities can choose to help enforce federal law, the 10th Amendment means that the U.S. government can’t force ...

On July 1, Congress passed a budget bill that gives an unprecedented $45 billion for building new immigration detention ...

The interpretation of the Constitution that undercuts workers’ ability to organize and act collectively is wrong because it ...

Instead, the justices found another path — a sneakier one. Repeatedly, they have let Trump amass vast new power, and they have done so without putting their names on it. They are proving willing ...

Local election officials are concerned about the loss of federal support for election security and hope state and local governments will step in to fill the void.

The administration’s militarized immigration crackdown is eroding civil liberties — and it comes amid ICE’s resistance to ...

Citizens United unleashed unlimited spending in our elections, and groups can now spend hundreds of millions without disclosing their sources of funding. We advocate for greater transparency in ...

Police departments are using social media to monitor activists and protesters and to conduct criminal investigations, with few controls. We’re pushing for more oversight.

Courts have recognized a "private right of action" in the Voting Rights Act since the law’s inception.

The most comprehensive analysis to date shows the scale of political spending on the four largest digital platforms, as well as stark differences in strategy between candidates, parties, and outside ...

Speculation about whether a Supreme Court justice will retire tends to pick up with the approach of the end of June, when the high court releases the last of its opinions for the term and begins its ...

You’re read­ing The Brief­ing, Michael Wald­­­­­man’s weekly news­­­­­­­­­let­ter. Receive it in your inbox. President Woodrow Wilson ran for reelection in 1916 on the slogan “He kept us out of war,” ...