Breaking Down Biden’s Order to Eliminate DOJ Private Prison Contracts | Brennan Center for Justice
The executive order is limited and creates some unintended consequences.| Brennan Center for Justice
The executive order is limited and creates some unintended consequences.| Brennan Center for Justice
Between 2012 and 2020, the white-Black turnout gap grew between 9.2 and 20.9 percentage points across five of the six states originally covered by Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act.| Brennan Center for Justice
Studies show that new laws will disproportionately harm voters of color. Federal legislation is necessary.| Brennan Center for Justice
Defend Democracy. Reform Justice. Protect the Constitution. The Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law works to build an America that is democratic, just, and free.| Brennan Center for Justice
This year, state lawmakers have focused on enacting election interference legislation, with six states already passing nine laws that threaten to undermine voters' confidence in the security of elections.| Brennan Center for Justice
Ahead of the 2012 elections, a wave of legislation tightening restrictions on voting has suddenly swept across the country. This study details both the bills that have been proposed and the legislation that has been passed since the beginning of 2011.| Brennan Center for Justice
The Senate majority leader supported the Voting Rights Act in the past, but now he’s refusing to restore its key protections.| Brennan Center for Justice
As the 2022 state legislative sessions begin, lawmakers have already introduced more new restrictive voting legislation than at this time last year. They have also continued to introduce bills designed to undermine the electoral process.| Brennan Center for Justice
The outcome of the appeal, brought by GEO Group, could set important legal precedent on wages for detainees who work in for-profit immigration detention centers.| Brennan Center for Justice
In 2022, states enacted 11 new restrictive voting laws, 12 election interference laws, and 23 expansive voting laws.| Brennan Center for Justice
The law generally prevents the president from using the military as a domestic police force.| Brennan Center for Justice
The law, which lets the president deploy the military domestically and use it for civilian law enforcement, is dangerously vague and in urgent need of reform.| Brennan Center for Justice
The immunity decision has enormous implications for Trump’s trial — and the future of the presidency.| Brennan Center for Justice
The statement describes the history and flaws of the Insurrection Act and outlines a comprehensive proposal for reform.| Brennan Center for Justice
Brennan Center experts break down topics on democracy, criminal justice, and more.| Brennan Center for Justice
The bill would protect our elections from voter suppression, partisan sabotage, gerrymandering, and dark money.| Brennan Center for Justice
This year’s tidal wave of restrictive voting legislation will continue in 2022.| Brennan Center for Justice
The For the People Act would transform our democracy by making it fairer, stronger, and more inclusive. The Brennan Center explains the key provisions of this historic bill.| Brennan Center for Justice
The need for Congress to pass the For the People Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act is acute.| Brennan Center for Justice
Political campaigns should be watchful of the risks and opportunities of using generative AI to engage with voters.| Brennan Center for Justice
70.9 percent of white voters cast ballots compared with only 58.4 percent of nonwhite voters — a disparity that will worsen with new restrictive voting laws.| Brennan Center for Justice
Unravelling decades of racially biased anti-drug policies is a monumental project.| Brennan Center for Justice
Special interests are spending more than ever on state high court races. Here’s why.| Brennan Center for Justice
Preliminary FBI data, however imperfect, confirms a sharp downward trend in crime, undercutting attempts to blame criminal justice reform for pandemic-era spikes in violence.| Brennan Center for Justice
EagleAI is the latest effort by election deniers to use the upkeep of voter rolls as a vehicle to disenfranchise voters and spread disinformation.| Brennan Center for Justice
The vast majority of local election officials have taken new precautions to secure the 2024 election.| Brennan Center for Justice
Many of the new laws are in states with a history of racial voting discrimination.| Brennan Center for Justice
Encounters with the criminal justice system can depress wages for the entirety of a career. Black and Latino Americans suffer these consequences most acutely.| Brennan Center for Justice
The annual breakdown of crime statistics offered some encouraging signs after 2020’s sharp rise in violence.| Brennan Center for Justice
Left unchecked, abuse harms not only elected officials but also the public they serve.| Brennan Center for Justice
Trends in state legislation could guide Congress’s approach to regulating this new technology.| Brennan Center for Justice
State legislatures enacted an almost unprecedented number of voting-related laws in 2023, with more of the same expected in 2024.| Brennan Center for Justice
Forty-five percent of local election officials said they fear for the safety of their colleagues.| Brennan Center for Justice
Policymakers must prevent manipulated media from being used to undermine elections and disenfranchise voters.| Brennan Center for Justice
The president has continued to claim voter fraud was a problem in the 2016 election. A look at the facts makes clear fraud is rare, and does not happen on a scale even close to necessary to “rig” an election.| Brennan Center for Justice
The practice has been a thorn in the side of democracy for centuries, and with the new round of redistricting it’s a bigger threat than ever.| Brennan Center for Justice
The potential for a second Trump term demands major reform.| Brennan Center for Justice
The landmark 1965 law is one of the most successful civil rights measures in history, but the Supreme Court has eviscerated it.| Brennan Center for Justice
States have already enacted more than 20 laws this year that will make it harder for Americans to vote — and many legislatures are still in session.| Brennan Center for Justice
Eighteen states have already enacted 30 laws this year that will make it harder for Americans to vote.| Brennan Center for Justice
In an unprecedented year so far for voting legislation, 19 states have enacted 33 laws that will make it harder for Americans to vote.| Brennan Center for Justice
The Voting Rights Act was passed in 1965 to ensure state and local governments do not pass laws or policies that deny American citizens the equal right to vote based on race. On June 25, 2013, the Supreme Court swept away a key provision of this landmark civil rights law in Shelby County v. Holder.| Brennan Center for Justice
State legislatures have passed a near-record number of new restrictive voting laws so far this year, while a pro-democracy movement presses on.| Brennan Center for Justice
The 2010 Supreme Court decision further tilted political influence toward wealthy donors and corporations.| Brennan Center for Justice
