BRENNAN CENTER
Congress Must Be Forced To Restore Voting Rights Act
By Brennan Center Photos: YouTube Screenshots The Voting Rights Act was the nation’s most effective civil rights law — until the Supreme Court gutted ...
Report Reveals Police Misuse Of Social Media For Surveillance
By Brennan Center\Rachel Levinson-Waldman \José Guillermo Gutiérrez Photos: Facebook\YouTube Screenshots Social media has become instrumental for exercising free speech and other rights, and its ...
Voter Intimidation: Some States Working To Ban Guns At Voting Sites
By Michael Waldman\Brennan Center Photos: YouTube Screenshots Only 12 states and Washington, DC, prohibit both open and concealed carry of firearms at poll sites. ...
Data Security And Privacy Risks: Congress Must Act Now To Protect Americans’ Data
By Brennan Center Photos: YouTube Screenshots American data privacy law was already weak before the explosion of data caused by smartphones and high-speed internet ...
Legal Experts Hold Important Symposium Discussing Issues Negatively Impacting Our Judicial System
By Michael Waldman\Brennan Center Photos: YouTube Screenshots Many of us are looking on with great concern as the U.S. Supreme Court moves a broad ...
Trump’s Presidential Immunity Claim Has Been Rejected. Time To Prosecuted Him For Jan. 6…
Photos: YouTube Screenshots The ruling yesterday by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit was a landmark in American law. Three ...
Jan. 6: Trump’s Insane Immunity Claim Unanimously Rejected By D.C. Circuit Court Of Appeals
By Brennan Center Photos: YouTube Screenshots The DC Circuit Court of Appeals just issued a historic decision limiting presidential immunity. The three-judge panel ruled ...
Brennan Center: Bail Reform Did Not Drive Crime Increase
Photos: YouTube Screenshots In 2019 New York State adopted a law ending the assessment of cash bail in most cases involving misdemeanors and nonviolent felonies. ...
Election Violence: Threats And Intimidation Are Distorting U.S. Democracy
By Michael Waldman\Brennan Center Photos: Wikimedia Commons\YouTube Screenshots Violence has often scarred American politics. There was systematic terrorism from the KKK aimed at Black ...
Money In Politics: New York Has Given America An Answer To Citizens United
By Brennan Center\Joanna Zdanys Fourteen years ago this week, a 5–4 majority of the Supreme Court unleashed a tidal wave of money into our ...
