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The Biden Administration’s Senseless Opposition to Congress’s Effort to Prevent Abusive National Guard Deployments
Section 516 of the NDAA is a commonsense reform that would prevent a president from borrowing the National Guard of a political ally to use it as a domestic police force in an…
The Independent State Legislature Theory Should Horrify Supreme Court’s Originalists
With grant of cert in Moore v. Harper, the Supreme Court has teed up question of the independent state legislature theory, which "would have sweeping and dangerous implications…
State and Local Solutions Are Integral to Protect Election Officials and Democracy
Four leading thinkers on U.S. democracy propose concrete steps to protect election officials.
Reestablishing Florida’s State Guard Won’t Give DeSantis a Private Army Free of Federal Control
While Florida Gov. DeSantis' proposal is worrisome as a political matter, it is unlikely to pose the kind of threat his critics fear.
Federal vs. State Powers in Rush to Reopen Amid Coronavirus Pandemic
As governors start reopening their states, what could the White House and federal government do to stop it if the feds wanted to?
All Politics Is Local…and So Is National Security
The current public kerfuffle about White House security clearances has focused the country’s attention on the sensitivity of federal government information and the potential…