Executive Orders

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.

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

As a federal-level accountability desert forms, states are reviving "collateral accountability" — damages suits against federal officers who violate constitutional rights.

States must be vigilant stewards of their data — auditing what they hold, limiting what they share, and enforcing legal constraints against federal overreach.

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

The U.S. sanctions against International Criminal Court judges and officials are a threat to constitutional rights in the United States.

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

A close analysis of the Supreme Court Justices' opinions in Trump v. Barbara.

The use of LLMs for foreign intelligence surveillance erodes the rules put in place to safeguard Americans' civil liberties.

The Pentagon’s new deals to deploy commercial LLMs on its classified networks provide it with a powerful surveillance capability that could be turned on Americans.

"The breadth of the order issued with respect to the Anthropic models is unprecedented."

"Further evidence of the need for a regulatory system that provides a more stable equilibrium for stakeholders to operate."