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The order instructs the U.S. Postal Service to refuse to deliver ballots unless the voters are on a list of approved citizens ...

In March 2025, President Trump issued an executive order attempting to assert presidential control over significant aspects of federal elections. The illegality at the heart of the order is that the ...

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) ...

The Insurrection Act allows the president to deploy the military inside the United States and use it against Americans, making it one of the executive branch’s most potent emergency powers. It is also ...

I was an FBI agent who infiltrated white supremacists. Too many local police don’t take the far right seriously — or they actively sympathize with them. For decades, the Federal Bureau of ...

Liza Goitein on National Security Law Today: Debating Section 702: National Security or Invasion of Privacy? With Liza Goitein (ABA National Security Law Today ...

For years, the Brennan Center has collected research showing that voter fraud is extraordinarily rare. Below is a review of developments and the literature on one subset of voter fraud claims — the ...

Over the years, small donor public financing has emerged as the most powerful antidote to the outsize influence of megadonors in our elections. By enabling and incentivizing candidates to rely on ...