U.S. Supreme Court announced it will hear Gill v. Whitford this fall, offering the Justices their first opportunity in over a decade to weigh in on partisan gerrymandering.
If structured the right way, tax credits could increase and diversify participation in the electoral process by having a larger pool of Americans making campaign contributions.
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The president has continued to claim voter fraud was a problem in the 2016 election. But a look at the facts makes clear fraud is vanishingly rare, and does not happen on a scale even close to that necessary to “rig” an election.
On June 29, the Brennan Center submitted testimony to the Council of the District of Columbia supporting the Fair Elections Act of 2017, which would create a small-donor match public financing program.
Today the Brennan Center for Justice and Emery Celli Brinckerhoff & Abady LLP, on behalf of a bipartisan group of former State legislators, candidates, and other appellants, filed their opening brief in the New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division (Third Department).
Sessions’s directive goes far beyond reason and risks reigniting the same, misguided “war on drugs” that brought the nation’s criminal justice system to this crisis point, without doing anything to enhance public safety.
