Civil Liberties

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

This Veterans Day should remind us that Americans do not have to agree on everything to build something together.

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

This collection brings together analysis of the legal and policy issues surrounding the 2026 U.S. midterm elections published on Just Security.

Congress could take several obvious steps to make it safer to participate in the American democratic system. 

DHS and ICE have failed to adhere to even the minimal transparency standards set by the Trump administration on AI use.

In recent years, U.S. state legislatures have increasingly taken steps to address transnational repression and foreign interference in the rights and lives of individuals.

How to safeguard elections against genuine foreign interference while preventing incumbent governments from exploiting allegations of interference to undermine voting rights?

A military judge on Wednesday threw out the last disputed confession in the case against the suspected 9/11 plotters at Guantanamo Bay.

Erwin Chemerinsky and Aziz Huq discuss the powers that state and local governments can use to serve as a check against authoritarianism and federal overreach.

A military judge has thrown out the confessions of Mustafa al-Hawsawi, a capital defendant in the 9/11 case at Guantanamo Bay.

The Civil Rights Division regularly announces investigations or even conclusions with little to no evidence of fact-finding at all.