Government Operations
Child Labor Violations Rising, but Enforcement is Lacking
Child labor violations and the number of children affected by those violations have been on the rise since fiscal year 2015, according to a new federal...
Hidden Owners, Hidden Fraud: Federal Awards Lack Ownership Rules
Hundreds of billions of dollars in federal awards are vulnerable to fraud schemes that exploit the near-total absence of beneficial ownership disclosure...
GOP's Attack on Former Special Counsel Jack Smith Backfires
The oversight hearing held yesterday over former Special Counsel Jack Smith's prosecutions of President Trump produced tension over whether Smith abused...
Federal Watchdog Finds Gaps in DEA, FDA Drug Scheduling Procedures
A recent Government Accountability Office report found that the DEA lacks policies identifying roles, responsibilities, and procedures for scheduling, and...
AI Safety Collaboration Faces Antitrust Law Barriers
Competing developers of frontier artificial intelligence models have no settled path to jointly slow work for safety without inviting unlawful-restraint...
A COVID Cover-Up? Senate to Vote Again on Witness Immunity
A Senate committee will consider seeking immunity for a former government official accused of covering up and destroying government records pertaining to...
Federal Courts Uphold Gun Ban With Conflicting Legal Theories
Every federal appeals court to weigh in has upheld the federal ban on firearm possession by people unlawfully present in the United States, yet they have...
Senate Judiciary Probes Flock's AI Cameras Amid Abuse Claims
The Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism, chaired by Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO), held what The Hill described as the first congressional...
IRS-ICE Share Confidential Taxpayer Data, Face Court Backlash
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) entered into an information-sharing agreement in 2025 so the two agencies...
Congress Examines Federal Legislation on Search and Seizure
After the surveillance tool Congress relied on most heavily after Sept. 11 was automatically repealed in April, Congress is examining federal legislation...
House Panel Examines Missing and Murdered Indigenous People Crisis
The Trump administration's proposed cuts to tribal law enforcement funding have become part of a broader debate over the federal response to missing and...
U.S. Sovereignty Concerns Raised On International Criminal Court
The Trump administration's campaign to dismantle the International Criminal Court took center stage on September 15, as a House Judiciary Subcommittee...
Senate Grills FBI Director Patel on Agent Firings, Polling Plans
FBI Director Kash Patel faced nearly five hours of intense questioning from both Democrats and Republicans on September 15 over mass firings of experienced...
Maduro Faces Immunity Claims in U.S. Drug Prosecution
Nicolás Maduro, the Venezuelan leader seized by U.S. armed forces in Caracas on January 3, is now facing federal charges in New York. A Congressional...
Federal Wiretaps and Fourth Amendment Tensions Unresolved
Emerging technologies continue to challenge the existing wiretap framework, and Congress has repeatedly amended Title III to keep pace with technological...
Senate Committee Votes on Witness Immunity Override
The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee will vote Wednesday, September 23 on whether to authorize Senate Legal Counsel to seek a...
CRS Examines Veterans Claims Court’s Role and Workload
The structure, authority, staffing, and workload of the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims (CAVC) is the focus of a new Congressional Research...
Federal Law Preempts State Pesticide Warning Claims
The Supreme Court's ruling in Monsanto v. Durnell on June 25 has fundamentally reshaped the landscape for pesticide liability claims across the country. A...