Press Releases
League of Women Voters and AFL-CIO Announce Intention to Continue Voter Registration After Ruling
Nonpartisan civic groups urge Florida Secretary of State to adhere to Court’s limits on prohibitive fines and penalties.
– 08/21/08
Study: Recent Attacks on NJ’s Clean Elections Program are Unfounded & False
Brennan Center releases exhaustive analysis debunking a survey by the Center for Competitive Politics (CCP), an organization ideologically opposed to campaign finance reform, which claimed that New Jersey’s Clean Elections public funding program is unsuccessful.
– 08/18/08
U.S. Violates International Law by Failing to Enforce Laws Protecting Rights of Mexican Workers
A group of Mexican workers, and Mexican and U.S. organizations, have submitted a document to the Mexican government detailing the frequent exploitation of workers brought into the U.S. by their employers on temporary work visas, and the failure of the U.S. government to enforce even the most basic of the workers’ employment rights.
– 08/13/08
Court Rules Government Cannot Enforce Speech Restriction on Humanitarian Groups
In AOSI v. USAID, a federal judge enjoined the government from enforcing a restriction against health and humanitarian groups participating in the federal government’s international HIV/AIDS program
– 08/08/08
Coalition Urges Supreme Court to Review West Virginia Case
The Center for Justice, along with the Campaign Legal Center (CLC) and the Reform Institute, filed an amicus brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to grant certiorari in a case with national ramifications regarding one of the most basic rights in any system of law: the right to a fair hearing before an impartial arbiter.
– 08/04/08
Court Rules Bolten and Miers Must Testify
White House Counsel Harriet Miers and White House Chief of Staff Joshua Bolten must co-operate with a House Judiciary Committee investigation which is exploring allegations of alleged political misconduct within the Department of Justice.
– 07/31/08
Voting Rights Advocates Challenge New Mexico’s Voter Registration Law in State Court
Today the Brennan Center for Justice, along with pro bono law firms Davis Polk & Wardwell and Freedman Boyd Hollander Goldberg & Ives, filed a lawsuit in state court in Albuquerque challenging a New Mexico law that significantly restricts the ability of voter registration groups to register new voters.
– 07/24/08
BAD BALLOT DESIGN Results in Staggering Numbers of Lost Votes
Brennan Center Study shows 13 ballot problems that bedevil elections across the country—voting experts offer guidelines for improved ballot design in time for ‘08 election.
– 07/21/08
Citizen’s Guide to Redistricting Released
The Brennan Center, George Mason University, and the Joyce Foundation are pleased to announce the release of A Citizen’s Guide to Redistricting, authored by Brennan Center counsel Justin Levitt.
– 07/09/08
Court Declines to Block Florida’s No-Match No-Vote Law
Lawsuit prompted changes to restrictive voter registration rule, but revised law could still disenfranchise thousands of eligible Florida voters in 2008. Ruling poses latest obstacle to eligible Florida voters seeking to register and vote in ‘08
– 06/25/08