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 ...

In gun cases, more than in other areas of constitutional law, Supreme Court justices increasingly rely on legal scholarship. Nearly seven years later, Amar’s prediction has largely come true — but ...

Since May, the Justice Department has sent demands to at least 35 states for copies of their statewide voter registration files. The Civil Rights Division is asking for troves of confidential voter ...

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 ...

Summary: Young adults participate in politics and their communities far more than they are given credit for — and in ways that often go unrecognized. National legislation and educational policy ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...