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

Following two days of turbulent protests over ICE raids in Los Angeles County, President Trump issued a memorandum on ...

The legislation would make it harder for judges to hold defiant parties, including government officials, in contempt.

The department has reversed course, abandoning much of its inherited voting rights caseload and leaving the state of Section ...

Last week in the Oval Office, the president was peeved when a reporter shared an acronym apparently used on Wall Street: TACO ...

Presidents have deployed troops to control civil unrest only 30 times before in U.S. history. The Posse Comitatus Act ...

The Posse Comitatus Act bars the armed forces from serving as civilian police, but loopholes and exceptions undermine its effectiveness. In May 1992, seven U.S. Marines joined two local police ...

The gap is increasing nationwide, especially in counties that had been subject to federal oversight until the Supreme Court invalidated preclearance in 2013. The gap in voter participation between ...

Significant exceptions and loopholes, along with a lack of enforcement mechanisms, undermine the law that prevents military involvement in law enforcement. The Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 was enacted ...

Trump and Speaker Johnson mislead again about election integrity. You’re read­ing The Brief­ing, Michael Wald­­­­­man’s weekly news­­­­­­­­­let­ter. Click here to receive it in your inbox. The Brennan ...

The president is wrong about what an invasion is — and what powers it triggers. The truth turned out to be worse. Trump’s migration-as-invasion theory permeates his executive orders and other ...

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 Originally enacted in 1792, the law grants the president the authority to deploy the U.S. military domestically and use it against Americans under certain ...