The legislation would make it harder for judges to hold defiant parties, including government officials, in contempt.

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

Sixty years ago this month, the Senate passed the Voting Rights Act, a historic breakthrough in a chamber long dominated by ...

The framers wanted to insulate the president and federal officials from corrupting influences, but a new law is needed to ...

Last week in the Oval Office, the president was peeved when a reporter shared an acronym apparently used on Wall Street: TACO ...

For decades, voters and organizations have successfully brought lawsuits against racially discriminatory voting rules under Section 2 of the civil rights law.

In his new book, Election Meltdown: Dirty Tricks, Distrust, and the Threat to American Democracy, law professor Richard L. Hasen proposes steps to restore voters’ confidence ahead of the 2020 election ...

White racial resentment — and not just party and competitiveness alone — goes a long way toward explaining where restrictive voting laws were introduced and passed in 2021. This study has been ...

Data does not support claims that the United States is experiencing a surge in crime caused by immigrants. In the past few months, politicians and certain media outlets have latched on to a narrative ...

As threats mount against election workers and infrastructure, federal agencies can and must act. Since the 2020 election, lawmakers, advocates, and other public leaders have widely recognized that our ...

A loophole allows the government to use foreign intelligence authorities for domestic surveillance. Congress must close it. This article first appeared at Just Security. It is part one in a four-part ...

The results that you see on election night coverage are not final and official results. They are instead a combination of unofficial results reported by election officials and news organization ...