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The longest government shutdown in history, 43 days that began on October 1 and bled into early November, was not only a matter of missed paychecks, furloughs, closed federal agencies, and jammed air travel. In this Congress Report, congressional expert and Washington D.C. political writer, Jamie Stiehm, analyzes the government shutdown, the roles of Senate and House leaders, and the eventual temporary resolution that reopened the government. The shutdown was a grueling…

Document Outline Conservative Bloc Liberal Bloc The Supreme Court’s 2024–2025 term was notable for numerous technical and procedural rulings on statutory interpretation and administrative law, cases on immigration and deportation brought by the Trump administration, and some of its typical hot-button social issues concerning individual rights. On the whole, the Court’s decisions were quite restrained. For instance, the Court did not strike down any state or federal laws as unconstitutional on…

Document Outline What are Universal Injunctions? The Political Context of Universal Injunctions and Trump’s Executive Order on Birthright Citizenship CASA’s Ruling Conclusion and Implications In Trump v. CASA, Inc. (decided June 27, 2025), the Supreme Court placed substantial limits on the ability of federal district court judges to issue “universal injunctions,” which temporarily freeze enforcement of a federal policy for the entire nation. Instead, CASA ruled that these judges…

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…