A new report jointly released today by the Brennan Center for Justice at the NYU School of Law and the Campaign Finance Institute of Washington DC offers powerful evidence that New York City's public financing system has contributed to a fundamental change in the relationship between candidates and their donors. With the program in place, there has been a dramatic increase in the number and diversity of the city’s residents who participate in the process.

Today's news that a prominent backer of voter ID laws is responding to growing public opposition and no longer focusing resources on elections or social policy is a welcome announcement. Yet the right to vote for millions of Americans is more threatened now than it has been in decades, and the numerous new voter ID policies are just one part.

Voter ID will officially be on the ballot this fall in Minnesota, after the Senate passed the measure this afternoon. Read a statement from the Brennan Center's Keesha Gaskins.

The Brennan Center released the following statement from Senior Counsel Adam Skaggs urging the Supreme Court to uphold Montana's campaign finance law and revisit Citizens United.