With 112 days to go until Election Day, President Trump’s drive to undermine the vote continues. As time runs short, his ...
This was originally published by Democracy Journal. Gerrymandering is not a new problem in the United States. Even the founding generation was not immune to its temptations: Patrick Henry famously ...
The executive branch has amassed increasing power in recent years, challenging the constitutional balance among branches of government. This year alone, the president has ignored the laws passed by ...
Summary: Financial incentives throughout the criminal justice system encourage punitive enforcement and sustain mass incarceration. Realigning them will require action from municipalities to the ...
A federal judge in Texas made news in January when he allowed a suit filed by Idaho, Kansas, and Missouri to proceed against the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of medication abortion, based ...
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 ...
Two high-profile deaths of men in custody and an unauthorized strike by corrections officers in the last year exhibited the systemic crisis within New York State’s prisons. The legislature responded ...
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 ...
Nearly all election jurisdictions across the country use voting machines to count ballots because they are more accurate, faster, and cheaper than counting all ballots by hand. Hand counts fail when ...
The midterms are just months away, yet the Trump administration has spent the last year systematically slashing agency staff and scuttling initiatives responsible for detecting and disrupting foreign ...
Restoring key privacy protections will benefit both national security and civil liberties. Six weeks after the attacks of 9/11, Congress passed the USA Patriot Act. The 131-page law was enacted ...
You’re reading The Briefing, Michael Waldman’s weekly newsletter — receive it in your inbox. Donald Trump’s lawbreaking spree has now been met with an unprecedented series of judicial ...
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