From cybersecurity assessments and training to coordination with law enforcement agencies, state governments need to provide ...

States must step up to help election officials protect their staff, facilities, and voting systems. Election resiliency is about making sure that attacks and other disruptive incidents do not impede ...

For over a century, the Enforcement Acts have protected the civil rights guaranteed by the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments from infringement by extremist groups such as the Ku Klux Klan. Project 2025, ...

At the same time, Trump continues to blare that crime is rampant and immigrants are to blame. As he defunds violence ...

The Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements, or “SAVE,” program was designed to help states verify the citizenship and ...

Instead, the justices found another path — a sneakier one. Repeatedly, they have let Trump amass vast new power, and they ...

On July 1, Congress passed a budget bill that gives an unprecedented $45 billion for building new immigration detention ...

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President Trump’s budget bill will codify much of his immigration agenda, drastically changing the landscape of enforcement and detention. Significantly, the bill funds a giant immigration detention ...

In wartime, the United States must protect its people and territory. Doing so may require actions that might not pass legal or political muster in peacetime, such as the preventive detention of enemy ...

The law disproportionately affected people of color and made them less likely to vote in future elections.

President Donald Trump declared a national emergency last week to address what he described as harmful foreign trade and economic practices. Invoking the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, ...