Yesterday the U.S. Supreme Court jumped into the states’ case. It issued an unsigned order holding that the states did not ...

Last week, House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries told the National Association of Black Journalists that “dramatic Supreme ...

New population estimates from the Census Bureau suggest sharp gains and losses that could reshape the country’s politics after 2030. New population estimates from the Census Bureau point to ...

A divided Supreme Court ruled last week that the Commerce Department’s decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census violated federal law. The opinion delivered a setback to the Trump ...

Update 4/2/25: Liberal candidate Susan Crawford defeated conservative Brad Schimel. An op-ed in Rupert Murdoch’s New York Post called it “America’s most important election of the year.” The New York ...

The Brennan Center and co-counsel filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of cities and counties to challenge the Department of Homeland Security’s demand that states change election rules or lose ...

A new Brennan Center survey of local election officials from around the country shows that many election officials have left the field, and more plan to go. In 2020, confronted with the Covid-19 ...

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) ...

Sending troops or ICE officers to the polls is illegal. Here’s how you can protect your vote and your community’s voice, even if federal agents unlawfully show up. The Trump administration has ...

Summary: The International Emergency Economic Powers Act, known as IEEPA, gives the president largely unchecked power to impose crippling economic sanctions. Congress must reform it. There are more ...

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 ...

Police departments in some of the largest U.S. cities have been experimenting with predictive policing as a way to forecast criminal activity. Predictive policing uses computer systems to analyze ...