Analysis

Requiring documents like passports or birth certificates to register for state elections disproportionately disenfranchises younger Americans and Americans of color.

The new administration is eviscerating post-Watergate efforts to protect the DOJ from presidential overreach. The case of NYC Mayor Eric Adams illustrates the results.

The outcome of the appeal, brought by GEO Group, could set important legal precedent on wages for detainees who work in for-profit immigration detention centers.

The state’s innovative public financing program allows candidates to raise competitive amounts from in-district small donors rather than megadonors. It’s working.

States — and their courts — quietly shape and check federal power.

Campaign finance rules and checks on presidential power are collapsing just as leading technology corporations have gained massive power over our political system.

The Trump administration must follow the law like everyone else.

Congress should reject this antidemocratic and ill-conceived bill.

The president moved to fire the Democratic chair of the Federal Election Commission, opening the door to weaponizing the agency for political ends.

States have continued to pursue amendments requiring strict scrutiny for gun restrictions even after the Supreme Court turbocharged the Second Amendment with an originalist approach.