The President may be able to deploy soldiers domestically. But the law still sets real limits what he can do with them.

Presidents have extensive power to deploy the military to assist with immigration enforcement, even without a declaration of national emergency.

Merrick Garland is the new Jim Comey.

Another Trump presidency, another FBI director firing

Under extraordinary pressures and uncertainties, the process was not likely to deliver what many expected or hoped for.

The big danger is what Trump can do lawfully.

The Jan. 6 Committee is the exception to a story of institutional sclerosis.

One of the defendants in the military commissions could benefit from illuminating a statutory change in a key evidentiary dispute.

A new historical study finds that Congress’s authority to investigate crime is “indispensable” to the system of checks and balances.

An in-depth, in-the-weeds status update of the Georgia, Michigan, and Nevada cases, as well as the new indictments in Arizona and Wisconsin.

A review of Martin Wolf, “The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism” (Penguin, 2023)