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Federal Judicial Vacancies: The Trial Courts

Unusually high judicial vacancy levels coupled with unprecedented workloads are burdening federal district courts like never before. The president and Congress need to act now to fill these seats.
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- July 2, 2013
Reforming Funding to Reduce Mass Incarceration

This proposal sets out a plan to link federal grant money to modern criminal justice goals – as a tool to promote innovative crime-reduction policies nationwide.
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- November 22, 2013
Democracy & Justice: Collected Writings, Vol. VI

This volume is a sample of the Brennan Center’s work on all fronts in the fight for democracy and justice in 2012.
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- February 25, 2013
Domestic Intelligence: Our Rights and Our Safety

The following essays — a product of thoughtful discussion among policymakers, government leaders, scholars, civil rights lawyers, and law enforcement officials — are crucial first steps in ensuring that our nation’s domestic intelligence infrastructure is true to our values.
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- November 8, 2013
What the Government Does with Americans' Data

This report takes a comprehensive look at the multiple ways U.S. intelligence agencies collect, share, and store data on average Americans.
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- October 8, 2013
How to Fix the Voting System

The time has come to take a hard look at the business of running elections. This report offers four key fixes to improve our voting system and bring it into the 21st century.
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- December 19, 2013
National Security and Local Police

The lack of oversight, accountability, and quality control over how police collect and share personal information about law-abiding Americans not only violates their civil liberties of Americans, but creates a mountain of data with little to no counterterrorism value.
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- December 10, 2013
Redistricting and Congressional Control: A First Look

In America’s deeply divided political climate, even small changes to district boundaries can determine which party controls Congress. This analysis focuses on who drew the lines after the 2010 Census, how that process could affect electoral competitiveness and the partisan balance of power in Congress.
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- October 25, 2012
Donor Diversity Through Public Matching Funds

The study shows that small donors to 2009 City Council candidates came from a much broader array of city neighborhoods than the city’s small donors to 2010 State Assembly candidates.
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- May 12, 2012
The Challenge of Obtaining Voter Identification

Ten states now have unprecedented restrictive voter ID laws, which require citizens to produce specific types of government-issued photo identification before they can vote.
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- July 18, 2012