Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act has been crucial to challenging restrictive laws and protecting minority voting rights. This report analyzes new implications — that have so far gone largely unnoted — if the Court takes the extraordinary step of striking down this key provision.
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.
