The Supreme Court overturned a key provision of the Voting Rights Act, removing a critical tool to combat racial discrimination in voting. See all of the Center's recent resources on the VRA and ideas on how to move forward after the Court's decision.
The laws used to prosecute leakers and whistleblowers have not kept pace with the complex reality of disclosure. How do we protect national security while preserving the transparency necessary for self-government?
Now that Edward Snowden has come forward as the NSA surveillance program leak, the government must decide how to handle his case...as a criminal, whistleblower, or both.
More than just an attack on the Muslim community, North Carolina's foreign law ban bill is likely to have real, damaging consequences for North Carolinia families, business, and people of all faiths. The bill was approved by the House in May.
In addition to the privacy and civil-liberties concerns surrounded the recent NSA surveillance program leak, there’s another major problem — this kind of dragnet-style data capture simply doesn’t keep us safe.
Similar to phone tracking reports in 2006, reports this week reveal the NSA is again collecting people's phone records — a move that raises serious legal and constitutional concerns.
The Brennan Center for Justice submitted a letter urging New Hampshire Attorney General Joseph Foster to address the growing problem of election spending by secretive political groups that purport to be charitable organizations.
The Brennan Center for Justice submitted a letter urging Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson to address the growing problem of election spending by secretive political groups that purport to be charitable organizations.
The Senate's "independent" bloc may block the most promising reform of its generation — campaign finance reform with public financing at its core — one its own members have introduced. In effect, they may filibuster themselves.
Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) quietly introduced an amendment to a pending farm bill that would bar food stamps to certain ex-offenders and reduce the amount of food stamps their families could receive.
The Brennan Center supports the OMB's proposal to streamline all federal grant processes into a uniform model and applauds the their efforts to hold government spending accountable.
