Our government has entered a new and dangerous era of corruption. This is a reason it so often fails to work, a cause of the ...

After a string of high-profile setbacks in federal court for the president’s immigration agenda, the Trump administration claims that it’s considering suspending habeas corpus, a key legal tool for ...

Community supervision must be transformed in order to help people caught up in the justice system, not hurt them further. This essay is part of the Brennan Center’s series examining the punitive ...

The result will be a lopsided, enforcement-only machine that will be hard to dismantle. The so-called One Big Beautiful Act allocates more than $170 billion over four years for border and interior ...

The Insurrection Act allows the president to deploy the military inside the United States and use it against Americans, making it one of the executive branch’s most potent emergency powers. It is also ...

Since May, the Justice Department has demanded that nearly every state and Washington, DC, hand over election-related records and data, such as full copies of statewide voter registration lists and ...

On his first day in office, President Trump issued an executive order attempting to end the 14th Amendment’s guarantee of birthright citizenship. State attorneys general, civil rights organizations, ...

On July 1, Congress passed a budget bill that gives an unprecedented $45 billion for building new immigration detention centers, including family detention facilities. This massive increase in ...

Hochul is hardly a firebrand. Her creative move reflects the growing public alarm and anger at a federal government that has ...

Skewed maps give Republicans big advantages in 11 states, mostly in the South and Midwest. This November, Americans will vote in another close election for the House of Representatives. If polls are ...

Enacted in 1792, the Insurrection Act grants the president the authority to deploy the U.S. military domestically and use it against Americans under certain conditions. While there are rare ...

Here’s how Texas Republicans crafted one of the most politically and racially skewed maps of this redistricting cycle. When Texas Republicans redrew their state’s congressional map earlier this year, ...