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, ...

The Department of Justice (DOJ) has slashed $88 million in grant awards for substance abuse treatment, mental health services, and programs that team police with health professionals. These cuts will ...

The Trump administration’s reported authorization of 600 military lawyers to act as temporary immigration judges would deprive immigrants of a fair hearing and further erode the line between the ...

The administration’s plans to fight crime by dictating state bail policy or deploying the National Guard won’t build long-term safety, but there are many evidence-based ways to reduce crime. The ...

This piece was first published by Just Security. When Congress passed the budget bill on July 1, it made U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) the largest federal law enforcement agency, more ...

The Constitution gives states and Congress the power to run elections, and the president has virtually no role in the process. Yet President Trump ignored this fact and issued an executive order in ...

The Trump administration has said that it is reviewing all 55 million people with valid visas to visit, live in, or work in the United States for potential deportation violations, including through ...

You’re read­ing The Brief­ing, Michael Wald­­­­­man’s weekly news­­­­­­­­­let­ter. Click here to receive it in your inbox. The presidency has seen its fair share of political retribution and ...

The Supreme Court’s 2024 term saw professional historians weigh in on a wide variety of cases, ranging from birthright citizenship and racial gerrymandering to medical treatments for transgender ...