The midterms are just months away, yet the Trump administration has spent the last year systematically slashing agency staff and scuttling initiatives responsible for detecting and disrupting foreign ...

With 112 days to go until Election Day, President Trump’s drive to undermine the vote continues. As time runs short, his ...

This past weekend, The New York Times published polls showing that public opinion about Supreme Court rulings often splits along party lines. There was one exception: By an 80–20 margin, respondents ...

Congress surrendered its most powerful check over the Department of Homeland Security earlier this month when it added $70 billion for immigration enforcement to the agency’s already massive budget.

You’re reading The Briefing, Michael Waldman’s weekly newsletter. Click here to receive it in your inbox. I’ve written that corruption is the sleeper issue of 2026. Well, it’s awake. And the issue may ...

In Louisiana v. Callais, the Supreme Court dealt the Voting Rights Act, the crowning achievement of the civil rights movement, its third and gravest blow. The Roberts Court has made it practically ...

The New York Times recently published a trove of Supreme Court memos that offer a rare glimpse into the internal workings of the Supreme Court’s so-called shadow docket. They lay bare how the Court ...

A state’s judicial selection system can affect who ultimately becomes a judge, as well as the pressures judges face while serving. States have adopted a wide variety of systems. Common state judicial ...

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) ...

Ahead of the 2026 midterms, Trump administration allies have floated the possibility that federal immigration agents could interfere at polling sites this fall, a scenario that would violate federal ...

The letter from Brennan Center President Michael Waldman urges the Senate to reject the SAVE America Act which, like the SAVE Act before it, would block millions of eligible American citizens from ...