The Brennan Center’s 2026 survey of local election officials finds ongoing concerns about government support, personal safety, and political interference. Federal cuts to election security support, ...
Since May, the Trump administration has been on a quest to collect complete voter files from almost every state. Most states have refused the Justice Department’s unprecedented demands for the data, ...
Police quotas don’t make communities safer — they prevent officers from focusing on larger public safety issues. As some local police leadership says, “get your numbers up,” and you’ll be rewarded ...
You’re reading The Briefing, Michael Waldman’s weekly newsletter. Click here to receive it in your inbox. The late 19th century was a dismal time in American politics. Corruption ran rampant. Congress ...
This article first appeared in Just Security. In the 1970s, congressional investigators revealed that the FBI, NSA, and CIA had spent decades illegally surveilling and harassing the civil rights and ...
New research shows that a restrictive voting law in Texas made people less likely to vote for at least two years after having a mail ballot application or ballot rejected. As we showed in 2022, the ...
His tenure has included multiple ethics scandals, as well as votes that helped roll back voting rights and ushered in ...
Efforts to secure full political representation for the District of Columbia have gained momentum, but obstacles remain. The nearly 700,000 residents of Washington, DC, do not have full voting ...
The Supreme Court’s decision to destroy what remained of the Voting Rights Act in Louisiana v. Callais will take every ...
Last week, President Trump issued a new executive order that aims to illegally rewrite the rules for federal elections. The principal thrust of the order is to charge the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) ...
You’re reading Major Questions, Jesse Wegman’s newsletter on the Supreme Court — click here to receive it in your inbox twice a month. This coming weekend marks the 61st anniversary of ...
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