The Brennan Center and Justice at Stake submitted comments to the Tennessee Supreme Court urging adoption of proposed new judicial conduct rules, including a recusal rule on campaign spending. The comments were based largely on a Brennan Center report on recusal reform after Caperton, which identified the Tennessee proposal as one of the two most promising in the country.
Mark Ladov testifies before the New York City Campaign Finance Board with recommendations for improving draft rules concerning disclosure of independent expenditures.
The Brennan Center for Justice and other civil rights groups sent a letter urging the Senate Judiciary Committee to request that the FBI postpone implementation of changes to its domestic investigations guidelines.
Congressional opponents may try to repeal the presidential public financing system. The Brennan Center for Justice, along with numerous other groups, wrote a letter to Senator Dick Durbin urging him to block any repeal effort.
The Brennan Center submits written testimony for the Senate Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights hearing: "New State Voting Laws: Barriers to the Ballot?"
The Brennan Center for Justice submitted a comment to the Federal Election Commission urging it to revise its independent expenditure reporting requirements in line with Rep. Chris Van Hollen's petition.
The Brennan Center for Justice sent letters to the 12 members of the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction urging members to follow basic principles to ensure transparency and public confidence in the Committee's work.
Recent media reports of an investigation into possible voter fraud or improper voting in Maine have focused on a list of registered voters who were also paying "out-of-state" tuition rates at Maine public universities. The Brennan Center wrote Sec. of State Charles Summers, Jr., asking him to publicly clarify that tuition rates and state residency for voting rights are governed by very different standards and reaffirm the voting rights of students who qualify as Maine residents and register to vote.
In conjunction with the ACLU, the Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, and the League of Women Voters of South Carolina, we submitted this joint letter to the Department of Justice pointing out how voter ID provisions in a recently passed South Carolina law are racially discriminatory. Our letter urges the Department of Justice not to approve the new law under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act.
Co-Counsel for Proposed Intervenor-Defendants in Little v. LATFOR
The Brennan Center and co-counsel for the parties seeking to intervene and defend the law ending prison-based gerrymandering in New York sent this letter to the Legislative Task Force on Demographic Research and Reapportionment (LATFOR), prompted by reports that LATFOR may not be complying with the law.
