Proposed changes to how the military acquires and tests weapons expose taxpayers to more wasteful spending while undermining ...

The justices consider tossing a decades-old tool to fight racial discrimination when it comes to fair representation.

Not only is the term “insurrection” a wild exaggeration to describe the protests in Portland, but it’s also an obvious wink to the Insurrection Act. That law, last amended in the 1870s, gives ...

The political prosecution of a presidential enemy has left the government with a seemingly unwinnable case — and a justice system tainted by politics. The power of the prosecutor is tremendous, ...

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 Supreme Court’s so-called shadow docket for emergency motions has played an outsized role in legal challenges against the new Trump administration. On issues ranging from dismantling the ...

On the surface, the 2024 fight between Democrats and Republicans to control the House resulted in continuation of the status quo. In 2022, Republicans won a net of nine Democratic seats to gain a ...

The executive branch is interfering in U.S. elections in unprecedented ways. In 2020, 2022, and 2024, our nation held federal elections. Despite the pandemic, threats of violence, denial of results, ...

Bad data and a politicized overhaul could spread election fraud lies and disenfranchise voters. The Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements, or “SAVE,” program was designed to help states ...

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 ...

The rollback of federal support for elections this year presents new difficulties for officials. Over the past two decades, the role of local election officials has evolved to meet new challenges in ...

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 ...