Congress: Don’t Grant Austin a Waiver, but If You Do, Reform the Process
Congress should play by the rules or reform the process for retired army officials who are tapped for political appointments.
December 29, 2020
Op-Ed: To stamp out Trumpism, the U.S. needs to deal with these six things
Donald Trump was always just a carrier for a political virus that predated and will outlast him.
November 27, 2020
Avoiding Another McGahn: Options to Modernize Congress’s Subpoena Compliance Tools
Congress can take steps to ensure that, when it issues a subpoena, its subject is more likely to comply.
October 16, 2020
Rethinking Our Democracy
With the Washington Post’s Monkey Cage blog, we publish multi-essay series discussing reform proposals and new legislative ideas to strengthen democratic institutions and make broad reforms.
August 20, 2020
Limitations on the Use of the National Guard
for Federal Law Enforcement Missions: A Primer
Protect Democracy explains the limitations on the use of the National Guard for federal law enforcement missions.
August 1, 2020
Legal Challenges to Improper Deployment of Homeland Security Forces: An Explainer
Protect Democracy breaks down 40 U.S.C. § 1315—the purported legal basis for the Trump administration’s deployment of unidentified DHS agents to Portland, Oregon, in July 2020.
August 1, 2020
Legal Challenges to an Invocation of the Insurrection Act: A Primer
Protect Democracy’s litigation memo analyzing the Trump administration’s threatened invocation of the Insurrection Act in the lead-up to the 2020 election and any potential legal challenges.
July 1, 2020
Stopping Election Interference
Elections cannot be free and fair when one of the candidates meddles with the rules or unfairly tilts the playing field in his or her favor.
February 26, 2020
Preventing and deterring election manipulation by elected officials
In recent years, there have been alarming incidents of state and federal elected officials exercising improper influence in their own election contests.
July 18, 2019
Not above the law
A core tenet of our democracy is that no one—not even the president—is above the law.
July 10, 2019