Image A New U.S. Visa Requirement Is Silencing Foreign Filmmakers The Brennan Center and the Knight Institute are suing the Trump administration over its social media surveillance policy for visa applicants. Fellows // Article // December 17, 2019
Image Another Trump Official’s Attack on Reformist Prosecutors Fails District attorneys aren’t avenging angels. They serve victims and defendants both, writes Brennan Center Fellow Andrew Cohen. Fellows // Article // December 4, 2019
Image How Bloomberg’s Entry Shows What Order Primaries Should Be Held In Letting small states go first allows for a more even playing field, writes Brennan Center Fellow Walter Shapiro. Fellows // Article // December 2, 2019
Image She Got Her Voting Rights Back. Now She’s Fighting to Restore Them for Others. “Voting is one of those fundamental rights that should have never been taken from us in the first place.” Fellows // Article // December 2, 2019
Image The Supreme Court Shouldn’t Disrupt the Judicial Consensus on the Second Amendment The justices are being asked to supercharge gun rights with a new set of rules, write law professors Joseph Blocher and Eric Ruben. Fellows // Article // November 26, 2019
Image Nepotism and the Impeachment Inquiry The issue of family favoritism is in the spotlight. Fellows // Article // November 25, 2019
Image Conservatives Celebrate Federal Courts’ Sharp Right Turn The judiciary is already dramatically more white, male, conservative, and hostile to civil rights. Fellows // Article // November 21, 2019
Image A Trump Administration Plan that Could Boost Corporate ‘Dark Money’ in Elections A Securities and Exchange Commission proposal could limit shareholders’ ability to rein in secret campaign spending by big companies. Fellows // Article // November 19, 2019
Image Is the Handgun America’s ‘Most Popular’ Self-Defense Weapon? It’s a Crucial Question at the Supreme Court A landmark 2008 gun-rights decision relied on an unsupported assumption about handgun popularity. Fellows // Article // November 5, 2019
Image What 2019 State and Local Elections Will Mean for Justice Reform in America This might be an election “off” year, but the results in races for governor and district attorney will mean a lot for millions around the country. Fellows // Article // October 31, 2019