California wants to require him to release his tax returns in order to appear on the 2020 ballot. His legal team has a convincing counterargument.

History shows that the expansion of the American security state never benefits racial and religious minorities.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is the biggest impediment to reducing mass death in America.

"Felony murder" laws across America are being used to charge juveniles with crimes they didn't commit.

There's a gerrymandering problem that Democrats aren't talking about.

The president's slurs and his administration's policies are an attack on U.S. democracy itself—all in a desperate bid to cling to power.

Attorney General Bill Barr announced that the government will put five prisoners to death in six months, ending a 16-year hiatus.

Beltway pundits treated his testimony as disappointing entertainment rather than a damning portrait of a rogue president.

He and several other candidates have issued plans that appear ambitious only because America's system is so broken.

The Democrats have largely flopped in questioning witnesses on Capitol Hill. The former special counsel's testimony is a chance to rectify that.

The state's response to a lawsuit by four black voters shows the wide ramifications of the Supreme Court's recent gerrymandering ruling.

The late justice dismantled originalism in his dissent in District of Columbia v. Heller, the landmark gun-rights case.

How a long-standing Supreme Court precedent is hindering constitutional challenges of partisan gerrymandering.

His attempt to include a citizenship question on the census is part of a broader legal crusade that predates his presidency—and will outlive it.

#UnwantedIvanka and the equally omnipresent Jared aren't just meme-able jokes, they're conduits for graft and possible threats to national security.

With their decision Thursday, the justices offered a strong rebuke of the Trump administration's proposal to add a citizenship question to the census—but gave the administration the option of coming up with a better excuse.

The conservative justices signaled they want to limit agencies' ability to regulate. That could have disastrous consequences for the planet.

The Supreme Court justice had no patience for a legal challenge to a huge Christian cross maintained with taxpayer dollars.

Trump's government is littered with "acting" department heads. Here's how he gets away with it, and how to stop it.

The Justice Department has never prosecuted a president after he leaves office. Kamala Harris wants to change that. What could go wrong?