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On November 12, 2025, Rep. Adelita Grijalva (D-AZ) was sworn into office, fifty days after she won a special election to fill the seat of her late father, Raúl Grijalva (D), who had died earlier in the year. In this Congress Report, Deborah Kalb examines the fifty-day period between Grijalva’s election on September 23 and her swearing-in by House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), which marked a modern-day record. During much of that time, from October 1 through November 12, the federal government…

The Supreme Court’s 2025–2026 term was notable for its landmark decisions on the separation of powers and executive power. Many of these cases were spurred on by President Donald Trump’s bold assertions of executive power on issues such as removing heads of independent agencies, immigration, and tariffs. Some of the most salient decisions this term addressed structural, power issues pertaining to the constitutional order. Those decisions are especially salient because they either permitted or…

In Trump v. Barbara, the Supreme Court struck down one of President Trump’s signature policies (enacted via executive order) of banning birthright citizenship for children born in the United States to parents who are undocumented or have temporary status. In this Court Report, Supreme Court expert Brandon Bartels explains the logic behind the Court’s ruling — a theory of citizenship that upholds the longstanding status quo of how the Court has interpreted the Fourteenth Amendment’s guarantee of…

Several years ago, in order to be closer to family, voting and elections expert Rhodes Cook and his wife moved several hundred miles northwestward from the Washington, D.C., suburbs to Grand Rapids, Michigan. In this Election Report, Cook describes his observations of relocating from a decidedly Democratic area to arguably the leading battleground county in a battleground state. Document Outline Neighborhood…