Presidents must follow court orders. Ever since the Civil War, they have, often unhappily. Whatever debates there might be ...

This is adapted from a piece that first appeared on Election Law Blog.

The president moved to fire the Democratic chair of the Federal Election Commission, opening the door to weaponizing the ...

The Dangerous Sweep of Trump’s Plan to Designate Cartels as Terrorist Organizations ...

The matching program’s inaugural run expanded legislative candidates’ reliance on small donors from within their districts.

In President Trump’s first week, the new administration revoked Biden-era Department of Justice policies designed to mitigate ...

Although the new president undid many of the previous administration’s policing reforms, Trump should still build on the beneficial policies of his first term. Hours into his return to the Oval Office ...

You’re read­ing The Brief­ing, Michael Wald­­­­­man’s weekly news­­­­­­­­­let­ter — receive it in your inbox. “In America,” Thomas Paine wrote at the founding, “the law is king.” Amid today’s ...

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 ...

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