The limits on congressional surveillance vary from those on other, more common forms of government surveillance. As a whole, they raise difficult questions around the convergence of individual privacy an...

Democracy is dependent on the good faith of people in power. The Senate Judiciary Committee’s new staff report shows how fragile fidelity stands as a bulwark against anti-democratic efforts.

In 1998, the IRS was prohibited from designating sovereign citizen nonfilers as “illegal tax protesters.” Two decades later, this provision may now be obscuring a plausible tool for identifying domestic ...

Misdemeanor plea bargains may seem too lenient in a few cases, but it appears that the government is going to insist on guilty pleas to felony charges in some cases.