Rule of Law

How the Trump administration could weaponize the Espionage Act and its chilling effect to control the press and justify suppression.

Political pressures like those used to silence legal professionals and undermine rule of law in Europe and Eurasia echo patterns of the autocratic playbook.

Tess Bridgeman and Rachel Goldbrenner are joined by Rebecca Ingber and Brian Finucane to analyze the facts, the law, and implications of U.S. killings in the Caribbean.

Swatting attacks are sometimes dismissed as pranks or hoaxes. But they’ve wreaked havoc on college campuses this year and a network of extremists is behind many of them.

Annotated questions Congress should be asking about U.S. military strikes on suspected drug traffickers in the Caribbean.

Americans can no longer turn to their political leadership to avert the catastrophe of political violence.

The administration has turned consent decrees into a deregulatory weapon, and courts are beginning to confront the limits of that strategy.

If allowed to go unchecked, the Caribbean strikes could encourage additional unlawful executions by the United States and other leaders.

Brian Netter and Mark Nevitt join David Aaron to break down the legal and policy implication of the federalization of D.C. law enforcement.

The president’s maximalist legal approach in deploying the military may well foreshadow broader use of the military in other American cities.

When core functions of the state become warped into tools of personal enrichment or political control, ordinary people suffer. The poor and marginalized are hit hardest.

This series aims to document how erosion is happening, what it reveals, and what it demands from those committed to rebuilding and rethinking our systems of accountability.