The Major Questions newsletter from Jesse Wegman will put rulings in context and explore ways to fix the Court.

Public outrage made a big difference in stalling the anti-voter bill the last time it gained momentum — and it could again.

Most Americans don’t know what it’s like inside the United States’ 1,664 state and federal prisons. 1 Yet even those who ...

A new era of anticorruption reform is long overdue. American public institutions urgently need repair and renewal. The 2024 election was the first time since the 1800s that the incumbent party lost ...

In the wake of President Donald Trump’s bombing and regime-change operation in Venezuela, administration officials and lawmakers supporting the action have defended its legality. Some have analogized ...

With its latest gerrymandering decision, the Court is creating a political system primed for distortion and deeper division. You’re read­ing The Brief­ing, Michael Wald­­­­­man’s weekly ...

The Supreme Court is considering whether a key provision of the Voting Rights Act remains constitutional. The Supreme Court will decide this term if the Voting Rights Act still allows voters of color ...

The political prosecution of a presidential enemy has left the government with a seemingly unwinnable case — and a justice system tainted by politics. The power of the prosecutor is tremendous, ...

Fossil fuel interests donated heavily to President Trump’s 2024 reelection bid. Months after his victory, oil and gas moguls have continued to pump money into his political coffers. Now, as promised ...

The historic ruling shows how states can push back against the president’s use of the military as a domestic police force. A federal court has ruled that President Trump’s use of the National Guard ...

Members of Congress are allowed to trade stocks, and almost all of them own shares in public companies. Placing stricter rules on congressional stock trading is a key ethics reform that’s critical to ...

In 1965, a nonviolent voting rights march in Alabama culminated in a televised, brutal attack by state police. The public outrage that followed prompted Congress to pass the Voting Rights Act, a law ...