BRENNAN CENTER
New York Budget Backslides On Bail Reform, Moves Forward On Campaign Financing Reform
Photos:Twitter\YouTube\NYCLU Friday, New York State lawmakers enacted budget legislation for fiscal year 2023, including $20.5 million for the new statewide small donor public financing ...
Ginni Thomas Texts Show Why The Supreme Court Needs A Code Of Conduct
Photos: YouTube\Screenshot\Facebook\Supreme Court The facts are simple yet jaw-dropping: Between the November 2020 election and the January 6 insurrection, Ginni Thomas texted White House ...
New York: This Is A Big Week For Campaign Finance Reform
Photos: Brennan Center\Sen. Jason Lewis U.S. politics are tilted — undeniably tilted, disgracefully tilted — in favor of wealthy donors. New York State is ...
Tell Congress: Protect Election Officials From Partisan Attacks
Photos: Twitter\Brennan Center\DOJ The Brennan Center polled nearly 600 local election officials about their recent experiences administering elections — some of their responses were ...
Beware: The Election Police Are Coming Thanks To GOP
Photos: Brennan Center\Scott Olson\Twitter\YouTube Since the 2020 election, the nation’s voting systems have been under unprecedented attack from multiple angles. Laws that make it ...
Women’s Rights, Democracy Inextricably Linked, U.S. Backsliding On Both
Photos: University of Michigan\YouTube Last fall, the United States was included for the first time on the annual list of backsliding democracies published by ...
Attacks Against Election Officials Are Taking A Toll
Photos: Brennan Center\Ethan Miller\YouTube The public servants who run our elections are alarmed. Between January 31 and February 14, we had the Benenson Strategy ...
Poll Finds Election Officials Fear Safety Of Colleagues, Themselves
Photos: Brennan Center\Tom Williams\Justice Department As American democracy finds itself under assault from lies about the 2020 presidential race being “stolen, ” election officials ...
Diversity Has Always Been Factor In SCOTUS Nominations
Photo: YouTube Dwight Eisenhower appointed Bill Brennan to the Supreme Court, sight unseen, because he was a young Catholic Democrat from a swing state, ...
Big Money Pouring Into State Secretary of State Races
Photo: YouTube In a 2018 Johns Hopkins University survey, more than 80 percent of respondents couldn’t name their state legislators. One-third didn’t know who ...
