Two federal courts struck down separate Trump administration voter citizenship verification efforts within the same week this June, and the wins for plaintiffs came with an asterisk neither side has fully reckoned with. Judge Sparkle Sooknanan, sitting on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, vacated the administration’s overhaul of the SAVE database, […]

When autocrats seek legitimacy, they often travel in pairs. Such was the case when Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic traveled to Tbilisi in June. While this was the first visit by a Serbian head of state to Georgia, their two regimes already have much in common. They are both well practiced in the balancing act of […]

Just in time for America’s 250th birthday, the House passed a sweeping package with the potential to make the internet a little less free. Yes, Monday night the House gave a thumbs-up to the Kids Internet and Digital Safety Act, which, as noted in a post from the Energy and Commerce Committee, is intended to […]

The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 on Tuesday that the federal government cannot cap how much a political party spends in direct coordination with its own candidates. National Republican Senatorial Committee v. Federal Election Commission struck down a Federal Election Campaign Act provision that had limited coordinated party expenditures since 1974, overruling the court’s 2001 decision […]

Gov. Maura Healey already has a dubious record on immigration. Under her watch, Massachusetts’ emergency shelter system spiraled into more than $1 billion a year, with migrant families housed in hotels and even a shuttered prison at roughly $3,500 per family per week, all at taxpayers’ expense. She then promptly signed orders restricting cooperation with […]

The Supreme Court decision in Trump v. Barbara does more than uphold a broad view of birthright citizenship. It reads into the Fourteenth Amendment a sweeping right for foreign nationals that the text, history, and purpose of that provision never supported. In the process, the majority transforms a targeted constitutional fix for one of the […]

Like millions of Americans — and a few billion others around the world — I’ve been glued to the World Cup.  One thing that has really stood out is not only the excitement on the field, but also what’s happening in the stands. Across our country, the World Cup is providing an optimistic lens for […]

If the people running your business couldn’t be held accountable, how long do you think your company would survive? Probably not very long. Yet that’s the direction parts of our federal government have drifted for years. Unelected officials have gained enormous authority to write rules, enforce regulations, and reshape the way Americans do business. Often, […]

For decades, Americans have been told that political speech becomes dangerous when too many people hear it or when the wrong people can afford to amplify it. We have been asked to accept the strange premise that the government protects democracy by limiting how citizens, candidates, and political parties communicate with one another. That idea […]

The Supreme Court’s ruling upholding birthright citizenship has prompted an outcry from the far right, including members of President Trump’s own administration, who have suggested the U.S. limit the entry of pregnant women into the country. The high court in a 6-3 decision on Tuesday killed a Day 1 executive order from President Trump seeking to limit birthright citizenship only...