This past week, quickly and with little public awareness, Congress markedly expanded government’s power to snoop on its ...

Former President Trump’s criminal charges may be a historic first for the United States, but prosecuting national leaders for ...

Today New York State Governor Kathy Hochul, Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie finished unveiling the final state budget for fiscal year 2025, including ...

Tonight the Senate passed the Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act (RISAA), a bill that would reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) for two years and ...

The Eleventh Circuit is set to hear a case that asks it to rewrite Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act by requiring plaintiffs to show that race alone accounts for polarization in the electorate—an ...

Nearly half a century after Roe v. Wade, the U.S. Supreme Court seems poised to undermine or overturn the landmark ruling. It’s an unnerving time for reproductive rights across the U.S., but it’s not ...

Trump and Speaker Johnson mislead again about election integrity. You’re read­ing The Brief­ing, Michael Wald­­­­­man’s weekly news­­­­­­­­­let­ter. Click here to receive it in your inbox. The Brennan ...

You’re read­ing The Brief­ing, Michael Wald­­­­­man’s weekly news­­­­­­­­­let­ter. Click here to receive it in your inbox. The Brennan Center is part of a broad coalition tracking election-related ...

While it remains unclear how much AI will change the face of vote suppression in the 2024 general election, new developments ...

Mekela Panditharatne serves as counsel for the Brennan Center’s Elections & Government Program, where her work focuses on election reform, election security, governance, voting, truth and information.

States have multiple systems in place to deter noncitizen voting. Those who violate the law face prison time and deportation.