How does the rhetoric of past presidents who have deployed federal troops to enforce domestic law compare to President Trump’s?

The philosopher’s analysis in the midst of the Red Scare suggests a different way of understanding current debates about the suppression of ideas.

In the weeks following protests over the police killing of George Floyd, the federal government brought more than 120 different cases against protestors for a range of crimes—many concerning relatively m...

The investigation as it developed should not have been conducted by a federal prosecutor, and Attorney General Barr’s public commentary has seriously (and somewhat mysteriously) damaged the credibility o...

On a short timeline, student immigration is not a national security issue. On a timeline measured in decades, it is.

A federal appeals court has upheld an injunction against a Trump administration asylum curb, finding that the measure conflicted with the immigration statute.

Regulations proposed by the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice, if adopted, would significantly reduce access to asylum protection for people fleeing persecution through signif...

BuzzFeed News successfully sued for the release of a version of the Mueller report with many fewer redactions. The unsealed material is a mixed bag of information that was already public and facts that a...

The Supreme Court’s decision in Department of Homeland Security v. Thuraissigiam calls into question several aspects of the court’s earlier decision in Boumediene v. Bush and more generally signals a mor...

The decision carries implications for the rights of asylum-seekers facing expedited removal, the purpose of the writ of habeas corpus and the judiciary’s role in checking executive power.

A Justice Department veteran testified last week that attorneys in the Antitrust Division were ordered to open unfounded investigations targeted at companies Attorney General Barr dislikes. If true, this...