Oversight

A series exploring the powers and authorities state and local governments have to check federal overreach and protect democratic norms and individual rights.

States need independent agencies with jurisdiction to enforce their residents’ rights so the valuation of those rights are evenhanded and not subject to political will.

States have constitutional protections against commandeering and coercion — but face a new challenge when the federal government sidelines states completely.

State and local governments have constitutional and legal powers that can be harnessed to challenge repressive federal actions and to advance meaningful freedom and equality.

Numerous federal agencies possess statutory authority to obtain a wide range of sensitive information without advance judicial approval or probable cause of illegal activity.

Trump's family is profiting spectacularly from proximity to power, providing an opening for a select committee to investigate, modeled after the 1975 Church Committee.

This syllabus supplement offers curated articles intended to be combined with traditional casebooks in a law or higher ed classroom.

America’s civil service, built for a bygone era, urgently needs bold, comprehensive reform to build a government capable of delivering for the 21st century.

Just Security's Reinvention Blueprints series features expert proposals to rebuild U.S. government institutions so they serve the public and meet today's challenges.

Domestic policy experts offer principles for reinvention meant to inform the work of policymakers, advocates, and governance rebuilders as they redesign federal institutions.

Together, the Trump administration’s vision of the Clean Air Act’s exemption authority and shutting courts out from review is one of completely unchecked presidential power.

The D.C. Circuit upheld Navarro's contempt of Congress convictions, holding that executive privilege must be claimed by the president or an official authorized by the president.