Trump administration intelligence officials are pressing Congress to renew the nation’s warrantless spy powers before Thanksgiving, warning they could run out of time to get a needed annual recertification for the program from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC). Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) operates under dual authorities from Congress and...
Republican senators are siding with conservative members of the Supreme Court who came under withering attack from President Trump this week after ruling against Trump’s plan to have the U.S. Postal Service screen mail-in ballots to guard against non-citizens voting. Republican senators say the Supreme Court made the right decision to reject the plan to...
Minnesota federal judges coordinated via email threads and templates to handle habeas petitions during Operation Metro Surge, raising judicial ethics questions.
New York’s once vaunted civil-rights tradition is a pitiful shadow of its past self, its premier institutions available for rent if not outright sale....
Every week political cartoonists throughout the country and across the political spectrum apply their ink-stained skills to capture the foibles, memes, hypocrisies and other...
The top official at the U.S. Postal Service said Thursday that the agency has stopped work on developing a controversial computer system that was central to President Donald Trump's effort to limit mail voting after the Supreme Court rejected his executive order this week.
