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In gun cases, more than in other areas of constitutional law, Supreme Court justices increasingly rely on legal scholarship.
After his Friday meeting with Vladimir Putin, President Trump bragged that the dictator had backed one of his conspiracy ...
After its successful start in 2024, a large majority of voters across parties want state leaders to keep funding New York’s ...
The judicial appointment of an outside authority to temporarily run Rikers Island offers a rare opportunity to transform one ...
The so-called One Big Beautiful Act allocates more than $170 billion over four years for border and interior enforcement, ...
Voters should choose their politicians, not the other way around. The Texas gerrymander and the partisan war it has triggered ...
It’s now clear that the Trump administration has launched a campaign to undermine American elections. An important new ...
The Power of Coordinated State Action Effective election security demands a coordinated approach that brings together various government entities while respecting local authority. This collaborative ...
While states and cities can choose to help enforce federal law, the 10th Amendment means that the U.S. government can’t force them to do so.
Since the 2020 election, the election denial movement has led rogue local officials to refuse to fulfill their mandatory duty to certify election results. Efforts to interfere with certification ...
The deployment is a risky and unnecessary political stunt. You’re read­ing The Brief­ing, Michael Wald­­­­­man’s weekly news­­­­­­­­­let­ter. Receive it in your inbox. For years, we have warned ...
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 ...