You’re read­ing The Brief­ing, Michael Wald­­­­­man’s weekly news­­­­­­­­­let­ter. Click here to receive it in your inbox. Those who care about the Constitution are reeling. The president of the ...

The Trump administration’s reported authorization of 600 military lawyers to act as temporary immigration judges would deprive immigrants of a fair hearing and further erode the line between the ...

The administration’s plans to fight crime by dictating state bail policy or deploying the National Guard won’t build long-term safety, but there are many evidence-based ways to reduce crime.

Supreme Court watchers preview pivotal cases on voting rights, fair representation, and presidential power. This year’s Supreme Court term will be a historic one for the future of presidential power ...

A half-century eroded those constraints. The Supreme Court gutted the campaign finance laws and narrowed the definition of ...

And Landry acknowledged that she couldn’t even be sure that those 79 were actual cases of ineligible votes being cast — some may have been incorrectly identified as a result of data errors or outdated ...

Shifts in congressional process, rising violence and distortions of money in politics render making change even harder for today’s freshmen than for their predecessors. As a result of the changes ...

In gun cases, more than in other areas of constitutional law, Supreme Court justices increasingly rely on legal scholarship. Nearly seven years later, Amar’s prediction has largely come true — but ...

There is a yawning gap in the rules that govern money in politics and government ethics. We must prevent special interests from using super PACs and officeholder-controlled nonprofits to bypass ...

Summary: Young adults participate in politics and their communities far more than they are given credit for — and in ways that often go unrecognized. National legislation and educational policy ...

Every 10 years, the U.S. Census Bureau conducts a count of everyone living in the country. The results are used to decide how many seats each state has in Congress, draw district boundaries for ...

Why It Matters Nearly a century after it was first introduced, and four decades after an unsuccessful ratification campaign, the Equal Rights Amendment is making a comeback. In the last two years, ...