Civil Liberties

A public resource tracking all the legal challenges to the Trump administration's executive orders and actions.

Local governments must exercise their constitutional power to cut off cooperation with federal authorities that undermine residents' rights.

If the Trump administration designates Antifa as an FTO, it could have implications extending beyond anti-fascist activists to the entire architecture of U.S. civil society.

The Supreme Court must not shirk its obligation to ensure that presidents cannot conscript the military in an effort to undermine democracy.

Civil society can share knowledge, boost public support, and build coalitions to resist the spread of autocratic "foreign agents" laws.

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

Georgians will fight for their democracy, as the ruling party now becomes one of the world's many paranoid, insecure dictatorships that know their days are numbered.

Tracking the use of State power requires systematically identifying linkages between individual developments and broader trends. This graphic offers one method.

The concerns expressed about the possible application of UCMJ's Article 88 to the protected speech of retired military officers aren't theoretical.

To introduce accountability for cyberattacks, Congress should make it clear that U.S. courts are the right venue for spyware cases.

The public, Congress, and the media should insist that the DHS's domestic intelligence practices be sunset, rather than expanded.

The ceasefire may stop the bombs, but it will not reverse the repression that has long defined Islamic Republic’s internal trajectory.