A former senior immigration policy official offers insight into how the system works and highlights urgent problems that must ...

State lawmakers can fight the influence of big money in politics by passing trigger laws that would go into effect if the ...

Trump’s pardons of Rudy Giuliani and other election deniers are a reminder that the 2026 midterms will face an extraordinary ...

Trump’s pardons of election deniers are a reminder that the midterms will face an extraordinary new source of pressure: the ...

But Chicago and Illinois could go even further. The crackdown is not only against immigrants but also against activists ...

A venture capitalist and former White House science adviser discusses the impact of the Trump administration’s attempted ...

Federal lawmakers can protect the American public by passing a new law to fully implement the Constitution’s oldest ...

The Constitution gives Congress the power to set tariffs. Congress can delegate aspects of that power to presidents and has ...

Significant exceptions and loopholes, along with a lack of enforcement mechanisms, undermine the law that prevents military involvement in law enforcement. The Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 was enacted ...

Editor’s note: A recap of 2021’s voting laws as well as a look at voting legislation planned for 2022 can be found here. The 2020 federal election drew the United States’ highest voter turnout in more ...

Over the past few years, the Supreme Court has dramatically expanded the use of its “shadow docket,” a previously rarely used procedure for certain emergency decisions. Normally, the Court decides ...

The president has continued to claim voter fraud was a problem in the 2016 election. A look at the facts makes clear fraud is rare, and does not happen on a scale even close to necessary to “rig” an ...