Oversight

If the Trump administration declines to disclose the terms of the Venezuela oil deal, Congress has tools available to compel it to do so.

When academics, business and law firm heads, and leaders of international associations like the ABILA defend the rule of law, those ripples can build into a wave of change.

Successive administrations have stretched the AUMF beyond any reasonable interpretation to wage worldwide war, without foreseeable end.

Authorities for domestic use of the military are outdated and subject to abuse. This is a blueprint for a single modern statute, enforceable limits, and judicial review.

Cautionary tales show well-intentioned procedural requirements can tie up decisionmaking without meaningfully enhancing outcomes.

Congress should pose the following questions to the administration about the assets it claims to have seized from Venezuela.

To combat executive non-enforcement, state attorneys general are using antitrust law to hold corporations accountable.

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

A House Foreign Affairs Committee report sheds light on the Trump administration's contentious interventions into Bosnia's politics.

The Privacy Act is ill-equipped to address contemporary privacy risks, much less to constrain an executive branch determined to use the data in its possession for new purposes.

Gubernatorial opposition is a powerful and often necessary component of meaningful state pushback against federal overreach.

Over 175 years later, cities’ historic role as hubs of resistance takes on renewed resonance in today’s era of rising authoritarianism in the United States.