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

After reviewing state voter rolls going back to the 1980s, Louisiana’s Republican secretary of state announced this month ...

The line between public service and private gain continues to blur as financial elites secure pardons and regulatory leniency ...

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

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

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

In gun cases, more than in other areas of constitutional law, Supreme Court justices increasingly rely on legal scholarship. Nearly seven years later, Amar’s prediction has largely come true — but ...

Requiring Americans to prove their citizenship to register to vote would exclude millions of citizens from the political process. Last year, the Brennan Center partnered with VoteRiders, the Center ...

Concerns over the risks have led to a near-universal opposition on the left, but some are asking whether it’s wise to take that option off the table. Over the past few decades, conservative activists ...

Editor’s note: A recap of 2021’s voting laws as well as a look at voting legislation planned for 2022 can be found here. The 2020 federal election drew the United States’ highest voter turnout in more ...

Since May, the Justice Department has sent letters or emails to at least 36 states requesting details about voters, election officials, and election administration processes, with 32 states receiving ...

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 ...