The Trump administration has detained multiple members of Congress who were attempting to perform their oversight duties.

The Insurrection Act needs a major overhaul. Originally enacted in 1792, the law grants the president the authority to deploy the U.S. military domestically and use it against Americans under certain ...

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 2 voter discrimination litigation fraught.

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 ...

A number of President Trump’s recent actions, including cryptocurrency transactions, real estate deals, and interactions with foreign officials, have raised legal questions related to the Constitution ...

Lauren-Brooke Eisen is the senior director of the Brennan Center’s Justice Program, where she leads the organization’s work to reduce the United States’ reliance on incarceration. Her team focuses on ...

For decades, voters and organizations have successfully brought lawsuits against racially discriminatory voting rules under Section 2 of the civil rights law. A federal appeals court has suddenly ...

Este mes se cumplen 60 años que el Senado aprobó la Ley de Derecho al Voto (Voting Rights Act), un hito histórico en una cámara que estuvo dominada durante mucho tiempo por segregacionistas. Ahora, ...

Miles de boletas y solicitudes de boletas de voto por correo fueron rechazadas durante las elecciones primarias de 2022 debido a la ley S.B. 1, y el electorado no blanco fue el más afectado. Un nuevo ...