A handful of wealthy donors dominate electoral giving and spending in the United States. We need limits on campaign finance, transparency, and effective enforcement of these rules — along with public ...

Birthright citizenship is in the Constitution. The first sentence of the 14th Amendment reads, “All persons born or ...

Ahead of the 2026 midterms, Trump administration allies have floated the possibility that federal immigration agents could interfere at polling sites this fall, a scenario that would violate federal ...

The Brennan Center for Justice submitted a comment to the New York State Public Campaign Finance Board on emergency/proposed rule making to conform with recent statutory changes to the public campaign ...

The Major Questions newsletter from Jesse Wegman will put rulings in context and explore ways to fix the Court.

Editor’s note: A more recent snapshot of state-level voting laws — both expansive and restrictive — can be found here. Across the country, the effort to restrict the vote continues, with a wave of ...

Most Americans don’t know what it’s like inside the United States’ 1,664 state and federal prisons. 1 Yet even those who believe the primary purpose of incarceration is to deter crime or to inflict ...

The letter from Brennan Center President Michael Waldman urges the Senate to reject the SAVE America Act which, like the SAVE Act before it, would block millions of eligible American citizens from ...

Mike German is a former fellow in the Brennan Center’s Liberty and National Security Program, which seeks to ensure that the U.S. government respects human rights and fundamental freedoms in ...

The Pentagon has been spending tens of billions of dollars to adopt new technologies at breakneck speed. Without oversight and safeguards, military applications of artificial intelligence could ...