Yesterday the U.S. Supreme Court jumped into the states’ case. It issued an unsigned order holding that the states did not ...

Last week, House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries told the National Association of Black Journalists that “dramatic Supreme ...

The Brennan Center and co-counsel filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of cities and counties to challenge the Department of Homeland Security’s demand that states change election rules or lose ...

The executive order is limited and creates some unintended consequences. On the campaign trail, Joe Biden vowed to end the federal government’s use of private prisons, declaring that “the federal ...

This resource collects incidents of deceptive tactics used to mislead the public and sow doubt in our elections. Those who have used these tactics have consistently been held accountable for their ...

A divided Supreme Court ruled last week that the Commerce Department’s decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census violated federal law. The opinion delivered a setback to the Trump ...

President Donald Trump’s 2025 inauguration didn’t just break fundraising records, it fundamentally redefined them, spotlighting the growing role of the biggest donors. Individuals and corporations, ...

The Senate is currently debating the Freedom to Vote: John R. Lewis Act, a bill that combined two pieces of historic legislation introduced last year. This transformative democracy reform package ...

Between 2012 and 2020, the white-Black turnout gap grew between 9.2 and 20.9 percentage points across five of the six states originally covered by Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act. Broad conclusions ...

Congress is on the brink of passing the biggest stimulus bill in history. The last time there was legislation like this, super PACs didn’t exist. Today, the campaign finance regulation system is in ...

The Brennan Center released documents Wednesday from the Los Angeles Police Department shedding light on the services being marketed by social media monitoring firm Voyager Labs to law enforcement.

You’re read­ing The Brief­ing, Michael Wald­­man’s weekly news­­­let­ter. Click here to receive it every week in your inbox. In January 2010, just days after the Supreme Court ruled in Citizens United ...