Since 2016, President Trump and his administrations have made non-citizen voting central to their misleading claims about election results. Even in elections the president won, he has claimed that non ...

In an era of widespread digital data collection, many Americans accept that some portion of their personal data exists beyond their direct control. Against this backdrop, it may not be immediately ...

State overviews for election officials and government attorneys on what the law says and suggestions on how to prepare ahead of the midterms.

Congressional seating is decided by the voters, and the system is built — through law, precedent, the courts, and democratic ...

A common misconception is that disclosing information is only legally protected when a public employee tells a specific entity — like Congress or a watchdog agency — about wrongdoing. Not so. With ...

President Trump has engaged in an unprecedented level of corruption during his second term in office. This level of corruption has come at a time when legal avenues for accountability feel limited.

A political cartoon depicting the three-way election of 1824 as a chaotic footrace. The resulting contingent election was decried as “the corrupt bargain.” To win the Electoral College, a candidate ...

Constraining an expansive view of executive authority to freeze federal funds that has no basis in law or history. “Impound, Baby, Impound!” Mark Paoletta, now General Counsel in Trump’s Office of ...

Jennifer Dresden is a Policy Strategist at Protect Democracy, where she helps teams leverage leading social science research to inform their work in defense of democracy. She was previously a member ...

Justin Vail is Counsel and Head of the Washington Office at Protect Democracy, where he leads the organization’s federal policy and advocacy strategy and works to build broad coalitions that ...