Trump’s operation in Venezuela is a stark departure from the Panama case. Venezuela has not declared a state of war with the ...

One thing is clear: Trump’s bombing and regime-decapitation operation in Venezuela was unconstitutional. The Constitution ...

State governments in 2025 are nearly on pace to match the number of restrictive voting laws enacted in 2021, when states enacted more restrictive legislation than at any other point so far in the 14 ...

Analyzing the president’s use of military, police, and security services in the nation’s capital. At the same time, the president signaled that D.C. may be a testing ground for this strategy, to be ...

The result will be a lopsided, enforcement-only machine that will be hard to dismantle. The so-called One Big Beautiful Act allocates more than $170 billion over four years for border and interior ...

In 2020, 2022, and 2024, our nation held federal elections. Despite the pandemic, threats of violence, denial of results, and extraordinary pressure, these were secure and accurate. Election officials ...

60 percent of local election officials are concerned about federal cuts to election security services, and 87 percent say it’s important for state and local government to provide additional resources ...

Daniel I. Weiner serves as director of the Brennan Center’s Elections and Government Program, where he leads work on money in politics, voting and elections, government ethics, and other democracy and ...

Most immigrants facing deportation are entitled to a hearing before an immigration judge, but their legal rights differ from those in criminal cases. Immigration is at the center of U.S. politics.

After a string of high-profile setbacks in federal court for the president’s immigration agenda, the Trump administration claims that it’s considering suspending habeas corpus, a key legal tool for ...

This article was first published at Just Security. Following two days of turbulent protests over ICE raids in Los Angeles County, President Trump issued a memorandum on Saturday night purporting to ...

The framers wanted to insulate the president and federal officials from corrupting influences, but a new law is needed to ensure effective enforcement. A number of President Trump’s recent actions, ...