It has now been one year since President Trump declared a “crime emergency” in the nation’s capital and deployed thousands of members of the National Guard to its streets. Questions continue to mount ...

It’s now clear that the deployment was never meant to be a quick response to an immediate crisis.

The deployment is expected to cost in the billions after it was quietly extended until Inauguration Day of 2029.

It’s now clear that the deployment was never meant to be a quick response to an immediate crisis.

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Vague, open-ended, and constitutionally questionable laws give governors dangerous discretion to decide when, where, and how to use troops.  

Vague, open-ended, and constitutionally questionable laws give governors dangerous discretion to decide when, where, and how to use troops.

Significant exceptions and loopholes, along with a lack of enforcement mechanisms, undermine the law that prevents military involvement in law enforcement.

The president can't legally apply his D.C. playbook to Chicago.

U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer ruled in favor of California Gov. Gavin Newsom in his challenge to President Trump's deployment of troops to Los Angeles.

President Donald Trump said Chicago is his next likely target to crack down on urban crime. Military planning has been ongoing for weeks, officials say.

Detailed legal analysis of federalization of DC police and the deployment of Guard, DHS and other forces.

Detailed legal analysis of federalization of DC police and the deployment of Guard, DHS and other forces.

“The ability to use the military anywhere, anytime, for any purpose — it’s absolutely unprecedented.”

Are there any limits on President Donald Trump’s push to send troops into states that don’t want them? A judge will soon decide.

Understanding the precise scope of the Guard’s legal authorities is important, because Posse Comitatus Act restrictions

At one-year mark of Biden administration, top experts revisit proposals to restore and promote nonpartisan principles of good government.

A Department of Homeland Security memo obtained by TNR signals top-level discussions about a potential escalation of the Pentagon’s domestic anti-immigration role, and lays out new details.