The Trump administration’s reported authorization of 600 military lawyers to act as temporary immigration judges would ...

Supreme Court watchers preview pivotal cases on voting rights, fair representation, and presidential power. This year’s ...

Every 10 years, the U.S. Census Bureau conducts a count of everyone living in the country. The results are used to decide how many seats each state has in Congress, draw district boundaries for ...

A half-century eroded those constraints. The Supreme Court gutted the campaign finance laws and narrowed the definition of ...

Shifts in congressional process, rising violence and distortions of money in politics render making change even harder for ...

The administration’s plans to fight crime by dictating state bail policy or deploying the National Guard won’t build ...

Why It Matters Nearly a century after it was first introduced, and four decades after an unsuccessful ratification campaign, the Equal Rights Amendment is making a comeback. In the last two years, ...

Elizabeth “Liza” Goitein is senior director of the Brennan Center’s Liberty and National Security Program. Goitein is a nationally recognized expert on presidential emergency powers, government ...

The Constitution gives states and Congress the power to run elections, and the president has virtually no role in the process. Yet President Trump ignored this fact and issued an executive order in ...

And Landry acknowledged that she couldn’t even be sure that those 79 were actual cases of ineligible votes being cast — some ...

Michael Li is senior counsel in the Brennan Center’s Democracy Program, where his work focuses on redistricting, voting rights, and elections. Prior to joining the Brennan Center, Li practiced law at ...

The line between public service and private gain continues to blur as financial elites secure pardons and regulatory leniency following campaign contributions. The Trump administration’s pattern of ...