Local election officials are concerned about the loss of federal support for election security and hope state and local governments will step in to fill the void.

On July 1, Congress passed a budget bill that gives an unprecedented $45 billion for building new immigration detention ...

The interpretation of the Constitution that undercuts workers’ ability to organize and act collectively is wrong because it ...

The administration’s militarized immigration crackdown is eroding civil liberties — and it comes amid ICE’s resistance to ...

Instead, the justices found another path — a sneakier one. Repeatedly, they have let Trump amass vast new power, and they have done so without putting their names on it. They are proving willing ...

Citizens United unleashed unlimited spending in our elections, and groups can now spend hundreds of millions without disclosing their sources of funding. We advocate for greater transparency in ...

The president’s actions are legally dubious, though courts have yet to answer some of the key questions around the deployment.

You’re read­ing The Brief­ing, Michael Wald­­­­­man’s weekly news­­­­­­­­­let­ter. Receive it in your inbox. President Woodrow Wilson ran for reelection in 1916 on the slogan “He kept us out of war,” ...

Speculation about whether a Supreme Court justice will retire tends to pick up with the approach of the end of June, when the high court releases the last of its opinions for the term and begins its ...

Sean Morales-Doyle is the director of the Brennan Center’s Voting Rights and Elections Program. He advocates for pro-voter reforms such as automatic voter registration and voting rights restoration ...