The administration’s plans to fight crime by dictating state bail policy or deploying the National Guard won’t build ...
A half-century eroded those constraints. The Supreme Court gutted the campaign finance laws and narrowed the definition of ...
Shifts in congressional process, rising violence and distortions of money in politics render making change even harder for ...
And Landry acknowledged that she couldn’t even be sure that those 79 were actual cases of ineligible votes being cast — some ...
Supreme Court watchers preview pivotal cases on voting rights, fair representation, and presidential power. This year’s ...
Elizabeth “Liza” Goitein is senior director of the Brennan Center’s Liberty and National Security Program. Goitein is a nationally recognized expert on presidential emergency powers, government ...
Why It Matters Nearly a century after it was first introduced, and four decades after an unsuccessful ratification campaign, the Equal Rights Amendment is making a comeback. In the last two years, ...
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 ...
The line between public service and private gain continues to blur as financial elites secure pardons and regulatory leniency ...
On Saturday, Trump stated in a Truth Social post, “Chicago about to find out why it’s called the Department of WAR.” The post ...
You’re read­ing The Brief­ing, Michael Wald­­­­­man’s weekly news­­­­­­­­­let­ter. Receive it in your inbox. The shape of the big showdown on presidential power is now coming into view. Two appeals ...