The Trump administration has detained multiple members of Congress who were attempting to perform their oversight duties.

Following two days of turbulent protests over ICE raids in Los Angeles County, President Trump issued a memorandum on ...

Presidents have deployed troops to control civil unrest only 30 times before in U.S. history. The Posse Comitatus Act ...

The department has reversed course, abandoning much of its inherited voting rights caseload and leaving the state of Section 2 voter discrimination litigation fraught.

The legislation would make it harder for judges to hold defiant parties, including government officials, in contempt.

Last week in the Oval Office, the president was peeved when a reporter shared an acronym apparently used on Wall Street: TACO ...

Lauren-Brooke Eisen is the senior director of the Brennan Center’s Justice Program, where she leads the organization’s work to reduce the United States’ reliance on incarceration. Her team focuses on ...

New research shows that a restrictive voting law in Texas made people less likely to vote for at least two years after having a mail ballot application or ballot rejected. As we showed in 2022, the ...

You’re read­ing The Brief­ing, Michael Wald­­­­­man’s weekly news­­­­­­­­­let­ter. Receive it in your inbox. Most weeks, this newsletter focuses on national politics — on the constitutional emergency, ...

En los últimos años, el gobierno de la ciudad se enfrentó a varias demandas por el cruel tratamiento que reciben las personas encarceladas allí. La jueza tomó medidas para asignar a un experto ...

State lawmakers continue to introduce new restrictive voting provisions, and voter suppressive bills have begun to advance and become law. Many bills seek to undermine the power of local officials.

You’re read­ing The Brief­ing, Michael Wald­­­­­man’s weekly news­­­­­­­­­let­ter. Receive it in your inbox. Eight years ago, the lobby of the Trump International Hotel in Washington became the symbol ...