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 ...

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

Sixty years ago this month, the Senate passed the Voting Rights Act, a historic breakthrough in a chamber long dominated by ...

The framers wanted to insulate the president and federal officials from corrupting influences, but a new law is needed to ...

The law disproportionately affected people of color and made them less likely to vote in future elections.

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

For decades, voters and organizations have successfully brought lawsuits against racially discriminatory voting rules under Section 2 of the civil rights law.

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 ...

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.