President Trump’s “massive and ongoing operation” against Iran violates the Constitution and our nation’s founding principles. The president acted unilaterally and lawlessly — without congressional ...

In June 2024, the Department of Justice released its fourth annual report assessing the impact and effectiveness of the First Step Act of 2018. This landmark legislation aimed to mitigate the harsh ...

Since spring of 2025, the Department of Justice has been attempting to sweep up voter rolls across the nation. That fight has extended to the courts, where the DOJ has filed lawsuits against 24 states ...

This past weekend, The New York Times published polls showing that public opinion about Supreme Court rulings often splits along party lines. There was one exception: By an 80–20 margin, respondents ...

In 2020, 2022, and 2024, our nation held federal elections. Despite the pandemic, threats of violence, denial of results, and extraordinary pressure, these were secure and accurate. Election officials ...

Tech companies have taken important steps recently to help protect elections from AI, but more needs to be done to safeguard democracy. In Munich, companies including OpenAI, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, ...

When 1965 began, federal voting rights legislation was far from the minds of most in Washington. After all, Congress had just finished a bruising battle the year before to pass the Civil Rights Act.

Findings from a new national survey on the prevalence of government-issued identification show that 9.1 percent of American citizens of voting age, or 21.3 million people, lack ready access to a ...

Two high-profile deaths of men in custody and an unauthorized strike by corrections officers in the last year exhibited the systemic crisis within New York State’s prisons. The legislature responded ...

The Supreme Court is set to decide a case that could overturn laws in 30 states that provide grace periods, which allow counting mail ballots received after Election Day but sent on time. Meanwhile, ...

Ames Grawert is senior counsel and John L. Neu Justice Counsel in the Brennan Center’s Justice Program. He leads quantitative and policy research focused on trends in crime and the collateral costs of ...

A handful of wealthy donors dominate electoral giving and spending in the United States. We need limits on campaign finance, transparency, and effective enforcement of these rules — along with public ...