Last July, the Trump administration quietly rewrote the rules on who could be held in immigration detention. A memo from ICE Acting Director Todd Lyons declared that immigrants who had entered the country without authorization were ineligible for bond hearings, full...
The Justice Department has sued 29 states to obtain their voter registration files. It is using a federal immigration database to identify suspected noncitizens on those rolls. In state after state, the database keeps flagging eligible American citizens. Courts have...
The ink was barely dry on the Supreme Court’s Voting Rights Act ruling when the scramble began. Within 48 hours of the 6-3 decision limiting the law’s power to protect minority voters, the Republican governors of Alabama and Tennessee had called their...
The 75-day partial shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security ended Thursday when House Republicans passed the exact bill they had spent 10 weeks refusing to accept. The measure funds TSA, FEMA, the Coast Guard, and the Secret Service through September. It does...
The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 on Wednesday to sharply limit the Voting Rights Act’s power to protect minority voters from discriminatory redistricting. By the time the ruling was an hour old, Florida Republicans had passed a new congressional map designed to flip...
Republicans have spent months trying to pass the SAVE Act, the bill that would require documentary proof of citizenship to register to vote in federal elections. It has stalled in the Senate. Trump renewed his call this week to eliminate the filibuster and force it...
