In our explainer, we examine the potential harms associated with the Trump administration’s latest privacy-invasive actions.
December 15, 2025
This primer focuses on how nonprofit organizations can navigate two of these tools: asset freezes and asset forfeiture.
November 26, 2025
Today’s National Guard plays dual roles as both a continuation of the earlier state militias and the primary combat reserve of the U.S. Army and Air Force.
November 26, 2025
The Insurrection Act does not suspend the Constitution, impose martial law, or exempt the military from following all applicable state and federal laws.
November 26, 2025
The military and law enforcement each serve as armed elements of the state, but have very different functions, training, and legal requirements.
November 21, 2025
A bipartisan group of former FCC commissioners call for repeal of the News Distortion Policy, which chills broadcaster speech
November 13, 2025
Protect Democracy filed an amicus brief in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia in the indictment of former FBI Director James Comey.
October 28, 2025
America’s research enterprise is under attack from a deliberate campaign of unlawful government actions designed to cancel critical research and replace evidence with ideology.
October 28, 2025
A new statewide poll of Iowa voters finds that over 60% of Iowans believe that the president’s deployments of the National Guard are dividing Americans.
October 28, 2025
A data demand is a request or order from the government that an organization provide certain information.
October 23, 2025