US Politics Tracker

The Supreme Court's November argument session opens Monday with two cases:

• Maxwell v. Dinis: whether a federal inmate can use a habeas statute to...

This newsletter frames the week as "good news," but two items have concrete legal content:

• Comey firing: Judge Furman of the Southern District of...

Right now: The current stopgap funds the government only through December 11, 2026. The House has passed three of 12 spending bills, and the Senate...

More than 4 million citizens have no full voting representation in Congress. The article frames the gap as both a constitutional and a partisan...

Proposed 2030 Census reforms could cost New York billions of dollars and seats in Congress. Key points for advocates:

• Who counts: Under the...

The campaign of Sam Husseini, a challenger to incumbent Glenn Ivey, is building a populist pitch: higher taxes on the wealthy and corporations, an end...

Moving positions into the excepted service raises a core oversight question. A Congressional Research Service report says more such moves could bring...

States run and certify federal elections, but the Senate and House ultimately decide who gets seated. The Constitution makes each chamber "the judge...

The White House has delayed until December a planned hearing into allegations of mortgage fraud by Fed Governor Lisa Cook. The article does not say who made the allegations or what evidence supports them, so they remain unproven.

The Energy Department's $5.1 billion loan to Alliant Energy doesn't name specific projects yet, but the utility says it may support these:

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This is a position piece from America's Future, written by its chair, so these are the group's arguments, not settled legal findings.

• The law:...

According to Legal AF co-founder Michael Popok, a unanimous three-judge panel ruled that the DOJ and Todd Blanche must immediately begin translating...

Rep. Don Bacon, chair of the House subcommittee overseeing cybersecurity policy, will take part in a conversation moderated by Professor Masooda...

The Inside Congress Live feed describes itself as a real-time source for Capitol Hill politics and policy , but the text supplied here includes no...

A New York Times/Siena poll suggests Democrats may be gaining in South Carolina, where Republican Darline Graham and Democrat Annie Andrews are...

Five of nine Washington Supreme Court seats are on the Nov. 3 ballot, and the outcomes could shape several major policy areas:

• Taxes: The new 9.9%...

Democratic lawmakers, litigators and scholars have formed a task force to prepare for possible fraud claims. They worry the administration could cite...

The Supreme Court declined to intervene in a dispute over a Biden-era rule that let immigration judges pause some deportation proceedings. The...

The authors argue the next Congress can rein in Pentagon overreach without public confrontation, using tools already built into recent law.

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Only Congress can change the federal Election Day, and the President lacks that authority outside the legislative process. The date rests on statute,...