The Supreme Court has helped create an electoral system in which competition is scarce, money is dominant, and voting ...

From speaking in defense of judges to advocating for greater judicial security funding, lawyers and legal organizations can ...

This critical 2026 midterm election may be decided by dark money, big money, tech money. Above all, secret money. The money ...

Threat reports from tech firms and independent monitors offer a glimpse of how foreign adversaries are changing tactics.

While most congressional districts were drawn in partisan processes this redistricting cycle, state courts and independent commissions played a bigger role than ever. In the latest redistricting cycle ...

In Rucho v. Common Cause, the Supreme Court put partisan gerrymandering claims brought under the U.S. Constitution squarely beyond the reach of federal courts. Since the Court’s ruling in 2019, voters ...

After a string of high-profile setbacks in federal court for the president’s immigration agenda, the Trump administration claims that it’s considering suspending habeas corpus, a key legal tool for ...

The Brennan Center and UC Berkeley’s Goldman School of Public Policy track voting legislation around the country, keeping an eye on measures that restrict or expand voting access, improve security, or ...

On June 25, 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a devastating decision, Shelby County v. Holder, which dealt a significant blow to the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The Court struck down the law’s ...

Citizens United unleashed unlimited spending in our elections, and groups can now spend hundreds of millions without disclosing their sources of funding. We advocate for greater transparency in ...

Reforms to focus DHS’s work and guard against overreach depend on strengthened internal oversight offices. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was created hastily as part of the sweeping U.S.

Transparency about the sources of election funding is a pillar of campaign finance regulation. The disclosure rules in place today were mostly crafted in the aftermath of Watergate. 1 Since 1980, ...