Despite launching a revolution more than four decades ago, Walesa is younger than Joe Biden and only a little older than ...

The number of new restrictive voting laws has increased this year, while legislation aimed at expanding voting access has ...

The justices consider tossing a decades-old tool to fight racial discrimination when it comes to fair representation.

Proposed changes to how the military acquires and tests weapons expose taxpayers to more wasteful spending while undermining ...

Since May, the Justice Department has sent demands to at least 39 states for copies of their statewide voter registration files. The Civil Rights Division is asking for troves of confidential voter ...

Since this report was released, a number of states have enacted laws prohibiting guns at election locations. An updated chart summarizing state prohibitions is here. Over the last 20 years, several ...

Purporting to go after “domestic terrorism,” the president presents an imagined left-wing conspiracy and authorizes punishments for even tenuous connections to speech the administration doesn’t like.

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 ...

This November, Americans will vote in another close election for the House of Representatives. If polls are correct, either party could emerge with a slender majority. But, despite a competitive ...

A new Brennan Center survey of local election officials from around the country shows that many election officials have left the field, and more plan to go. In 2020, confronted with the Covid-19 ...

This article was first published at Just Security. Following two days of turbulent protests over ICE raids in Los Angeles County, President Trump issued a memorandum on Saturday night purporting to ...

70.9 percent of white voters cast ballots compared with only 58.4 percent of nonwhite voters — a disparity that will worsen with new restrictive voting laws. In the 2020 election, voter turnout surged ...