BREAKING: New Jersey Passes Automatic Voter Registration
The legislation would improve accuracy of voter rolls and streamline the registration process.
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Fentanyl Bill Would Be a Disastrous Return to War-on-Drugs Tactics
Increasing mandatory minimums would drive up mass incarceration without substantively halting the opioid crisis. -
Social Media is Now Prime Conduit for Foreign Interference
Brennan Center shows how foreign governments circumvent ban on foreign spending in U.S. elections. -
New York State Moves Forward on Online Political Spending Regulation
The Brennan Center commends New York State on bringing internet political ads under existing transparency rules that apply to broadcast communications. -
Amicus Brief: Supreme Court Must Consider Americans Harmed by Muslim Ban
President Trump’s Muslim ban is tearing apart families and stigmatizing entire communities, according to an amicus brief filed in the U.S. Supreme Court today on behalf of six individual American Muslims and their families. -
Wisconsin Supreme Court Election Passes $2.5 Million in TV ads
On Tuesday, Wisconsin voters will decide whether Judge Rebecca Dallet or Judge Michael Screnock will be the next justice on the Wisconsin Supreme Court. The race has seen millions of dollars in spending, much of it from outside groups unencumbered by campaign finance regulations. -
Maryland Legislature Passes Automatic Voter Registration
The Maryland state legislature has approved a bill that would establish automatic voter registration, streamlining the process at the Motor Vehicle Administration and other government offices. It now moves to the Governor’s desk. -
Census Citizenship Question a Dramatic Misstep
Late today, the U.S. Commerce Department announced it would include a question about citizenship status on the 2020 census. The Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law said such a move will drive down participation in the census, leading to a systematic undercount that will have damaging effects on our democracy for a decade or more. -
Extreme Gerrymandering: Democrats Need Near-Record Margin to Take House in 2018
First-of-its-kind Brennan Center report shows precise electoral impact of extreme partisan gerrymandering -
New Election Security Funds are Breakthrough for Democracy
The latest spending bill from Congress appropriates $380 million in critical election infrastructure funds. But will it be sufficient to replace the country’s most vulnerable voting machines?
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