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When the Inspector General Act was passed in 1978, its backers hoped it would usher in a new age of government oversight. A case involving the Justice Department demonstrates that was magical thinking
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The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) was intended to make the federal government more transparent. Its author would be appalled at how courts have eviscerated it. Congress should fix it.
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All nine agreed states can't enforce a federal constitutional provision governing ballot access, but three accused the majority of insulating past and future insurrectionists from disqualification
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Conceived as the voice and protector of the people, it has instead too frequently been an instrument of repression
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In which the Administration bans China from buying your data but not the FBI, and how it links to the FISA reauthorization fight.
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House and Senate GOP efforts to revive a racist Trump era program targeting people of Chinese heritage are morally repugnant and endanger our national security
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Sometimes, you just gotta sue to fight the Feds
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A misleadingly titled book saves the best political and historical insights for the footnotes
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Speaker Johnson pulls his "compromise" FISA bill in the face of intense opposition on and off the Hill
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House national security hawks have, for now, outmaneuvered FISA reformers....but the fight is not over and the secret session is off for now
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As early as Wednesday, Congress could take up in secret a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) reform bill that may be long on surveillance and short on protecting your rights
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History, text, and precedent all weigh towards Trump's disqualification