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.

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.

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.

The 2024 federal election cycle was the most secretive since the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision in 2010. Dark money groups, nonprofits and shell companies that spend on elections without ...

Federal and state policymakers must rise to the challenge artificial intelligence poses to safe, secure elections and responsive, accountable governance. Without proper safeguards and reforms, ...

Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation’s blueprint for a conservative administration, proposed a number of actions that would transform criminal justice policy at the federal level. They are likely to ...