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Congress currently holds the statute that created the Insurrection Act and has been repeatedly urged by legal groups to amend it, but under current law Congress has no automatic, immediate power to “o...
Across the past five years the public record shows two conflicting patterns: and () have had a sharp increase in deaths in custody and high‑profile fatal shootings in 2025–2026, even as analyses of of...
Congress has three constitutional and statutory tools most often discussed for curbing or removing presidential emergency authority: impeachment and conviction under Article I (not detailed in the pro...
Lawyers, legal organizations and advocacy groups have advanced a clustered set of legislative fixes aimed at narrowing presidential authority to deploy federal forces at home: proposals generally seek...
ICE publishes two complementary sources for in‑custody deaths: legacy PDF compilations covering October 2003 through mid‑2017 and post‑2018 death notices/FY reports on its website, but the documents p...
A precise, year-by-year tally of ICE-reported in-custody deaths from 2004 through 2025 is not available in the documents supplied; the reporting does, however, establish a few confirmed data points an...
Congress wrote and has repeatedly reshaped the legal framework that allows a president to order U.S. forces into American streets, and it retains multiple statutory and political levers to constrain, ...
The Posse Comitatus Act (PCA) generally bars the use of active-duty federal military forces to execute domestic law, while the Insurrection Act is the principal statutory exception that allows the Pre...
As detention surged in 2025, fell and reported deaths in custody spiked, producing a higher death rate relative to the and prompting alarm from advocates and watchdogs; official and independent source...
The 2001 and 2002 AUMFs have in practice functioned as broad statutory authorizations that presidents of both parties have used to circumvent or dilute the War Powers Resolution’s procedural checks—es...
No member of Congress has been expelled from the U.S. House or Senate in the modern wave of insider-trading scrutiny, but members have been investigated, publicly censured in other eras for trading-re...
Federal agencies used Census Bureau population and survey data to guide the geographic distribution of at least 353 federal assistance programs in FY2021 and those data helped direct more than $2.8 tr...
Congress last made substantive, enduring amendments to the Insurrection Act in the 19th century (1861, 1871, with a minor 1874 change); later 20th–21st century activity has been limited to short-lived...