The Trump administration’s reported authorization of 600 military lawyers to act as temporary immigration judges would ...
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 ...
Citizens United created loopholes in campaign disclosure rules that have made so-called dark money — funds from groups that do not disclose their donors — disturbingly common. Powerful groups have ...
Every 10 years, the U.S. Census Bureau conducts a count of everyone living in the country. The results are used to decide how many seats each state has in Congress, draw district boundaries for ...
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 ...
You’re reading The Briefing, Michael Waldman’s weekly newsletter. Receive it in your inbox. President Trump has threatened to send troops to Chicago to “straighten that one out.” New ...
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 ...
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