In an era of widespread digital data collection, many Americans accept that some portion of their personal data exists beyond their direct control. Against this backdrop, it may not be immediately ...

Watching election results come in can be stressful, and it’s only become more difficult to ascertain how to interpret returns because of the ways in which counting the vote has evolved. For most of ...

These key questions can help assess whether a government-led investigation or prosecution is appropriate — or an abuse of power. Former president Donald Trump is facing criminal investigations and ...

In March, we published Executive Override: How the Trump administration is using federal power to deceive Americans, disrupt our elections, and deny fair results — and what we can do to stop it. The ...

In November 2023, just after off-year elections and as states were preparing for the upcoming presidential primaries, a registered voter in Waterford Township, Michigan challenged the voting ...

Since Donald Trump has returned to the presidency, we have seen numerous Department of Justice (DOJ) investigations and prosecutions against his political opponents, often presaged by direct threats ...

A central hallmark of American democracy is that, with tightly limited exceptions, the U.S. military is not used here at home. Since the earliest days of our republic, Congress has passed statutory ...

A political cartoon depicting the three-way election of 1824 as a chaotic footrace. The resulting contingent election was decried as “the corrupt bargain.” To win the Electoral College, a candidate ...

Since 2016, President Trump and his administrations have made non-citizen voting central to their misleading claims about election results. Even in elections the president won, he has claimed that non ...

Today, a federal court in Georgia greenlit a lawsuit against Dinesh D’Souza, Salem Media, Regnery Publishing, True The Vote, and True the Vote’s Catherine Engelbrecht and Gregg Phillips (along with ...

National emergencies are critical tools for addressing sudden and unforeseen events — often situations that require an immediate, decisive response to address. In our constitutional system, a national ...

The civil service is the civilian workforce of the U.S. federal government, currently numbering about 2.2 million employees. These employees perform virtually all the functions of the federal ...