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Our latest Fair Courts E-Lert highlights Arizona Governor’s efforts to remake the state’s supreme court, an upcoming webinar about diversity on state supreme courts, and more.

Our latest Fair Courts E-Lert highlights an amicus brief filed by Democratic Senators warning SCOTUS of potential court reforms, a group’s effort to recall Alaska’s governor over cuts to Court’s budget, and more.

What’s needed is to make the court more democratically accountable and to end strategic retirements. Here’s how.

The 1994 crime bill has a complicated legacy, dominated by funding incentives blamed for driving mass incarceration. A quarter century later, there are numerous proposals to undo the damage.

From its first days, the Voting Rights Act united members of both parties. Critically, this proposal continues that bipartisan approach. We need an election system that works well for everyone, and doesn’t tolerate discrimination against anyone.

A new Brennan Center for Justice analysis of data from the 2010 election indicates more than 20,000 votes for governor in New York were lost because machines read them as “overvotes,” ballots with too many candidates selected. The analysis finds New York voting machines’ confusing and misleading overvote warning message is at fault, as well as the state’s outdated ballot design.

A new Brennan Center for Justice analysis of data from the 2010 general election finds more than 20,000 votes for governor in New York were lost because machines read them as “overvotes,” ballots with too many candidates selected.

Brennan Center Study shows 13 ballot problems that bedevil elections across the country—voting experts offer guidelines for improved ballot design in time for ‘08 election.

If you are shocked by a jail suicide you aren’t paying attention to the grim conditions of incarceration in America.

Focusing and speculating about a mass shooter’s background can obscure the lasting damage on targeted communities.