Executive Power

Order: Federal judge denies DOJ request to make California set aside 20,000 mail ballots from alleged noncitizens.

Unsealed criminal information charges ex-FBI Director James Comey under the Espionage Act over alleged 2016 leak.

The next administration should lean into enforcement as a strategy to advance fairness, justice, and the rule of law.

An examination of the constitutional, legal, and ethical constraints on the president when he exercises his power as chief prosecutor.

Expert analysis of what the expired Harvard visa ban means for the university’s lawsuit against the Trump administration.

Host David Aaron joins Adam Hickey to discuss an unusual announcement from the Department of Justice on the Foreign Agents Registration Act and Section 951. 

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

Unpacking the Office of Legal Counsel opinion concluding that executive privilege may apply to presidential communications with private advisers.

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.

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.

Lessons from Nixon's forgotten essay in defense of his infamous remark.