Political ads are booming online, with more than $619 million spent this election cycle as of the end of August on Google and ...

In 1798, Congress passed the Alien and Sedition Acts. These laws criminalized dissent, abused civil liberties, and violated ...

Smith’s position is that most of the indictment is about unofficial conduct. It is about candidate Trump, not President Trump ...

While letting justices serve during “good behavior” was designed to encourage impartiality, it now tends to promote the ...

This detention and deportation power poses an alarming risk of abuse and rights violations in both wartime and peacetime.

Despite that, some politicians have peddled the lie that noncitizens are voting in significant numbers — and they’re using ...

Some politicians want to abuse a dangerous presidential power to deport noncitizens without safeguards or due process.

With voting underway in the presidential election, voters should be prepared to hear about election certification: the post-election formality that marks the end of the vote-counting process. In the ...

You’re read­ing The Brief­ing, Michael Wald­­­­­man’s weekly news­­­­­­­­­let­ter. Click here to receive it in your inbox. Last week, Special Counsel Jack Smith submitted a 165-page brief to Judge ...

Jaemin Kim has served as Vice President for Development at the Brennan Center since 2021. She quickly grew the Center’s development staff by one third. In the second year of her leadership, her ...