Since spring of 2025, the Department of Justice has been attempting to sweep up voter rolls across the nation. That fight has extended to the courts, where the DOJ has filed lawsuits against 24 states ...

When 1965 began, federal voting rights legislation was far from the minds of most in Washington. After all, Congress had just finished a bruising battle the year before to pass the Civil Rights Act.

This piece first appeared at Just Security. As Congress prepares to vote in April on reauthorizing Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (“FISA”), one of the main points of ...

Last week, President Trump issued a new executive order that aims to illegally rewrite the rules for federal elections. The principal thrust of the order is to charge the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) ...

In 2020, 2022, and 2024, our nation held federal elections. Despite the pandemic, threats of violence, denial of results, and extraordinary pressure, these were secure and accurate. Election officials ...

A federal court today declared unconstitutional key portions of President Trump’s executive order restricting mail voting. The executive order, issued in March 2026, unlawfully attempted to seize ...

Two high-profile deaths of men in custody and an unauthorized strike by corrections officers in the last year exhibited the systemic crisis within New York State’s prisons. The legislature responded ...

Tech companies have taken important steps recently to help protect elections from AI, but more needs to be done to safeguard democracy. In Munich, companies including OpenAI, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, ...

The Supreme Court is set to decide a case that could overturn laws in 30 states that provide grace periods, which allow counting mail ballots received after Election Day but sent on time. Meanwhile, ...

This article was originally published by Cardozo Law Review. This year, we celebrate the 250th anniversary of our independence. In January 1776, Thomas Paine published Common Sense. Paine was an ...

In late September, President Trump signed an executive order purporting to designate “Antifa” as a “domestic terrorist organization.” A few days later, he issued National Security Presidential ...