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

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.

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

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

A number of President Trump’s recent actions, including cryptocurrency transactions, real estate deals, and interactions with foreign officials, have raised legal questions related to the Constitution ...

The proposal would undermine the Constitution’s clemency authority, as well as the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment. These actions represent an extraordinary attempt to ...

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

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 ...

In its first 100 days, the second Trump administration’s actions have upended seemingly every aspect of American life and government. More than 200 federal lawsuits have challenged its moves, and at ...