House Passes SAVE Act; Brennan Center Reacts
The Senate must reject this disastrous bill, which would prevent millions of American citizens from voting.
The Senate must reject this disastrous bill, which would prevent millions of American citizens from voting.
The lawsuit challenges President Trump’s unlawful executive order on voting that attempts to seize the power to set voter registration rules from Congress and the states, and doing so in a way that would violate federal law and the Constitution if carried out by the Election Assistance Commission.
A federal judge ruled that certain provisions in Texas’s S.B. 1, a restrictive voting law passed in 2021, violate federal law.
President claims extreme, sweeping powers to detain and deport without due process under wartime law from 1798.
The bill would revive crucial protections against racial discrimination in voting following the gutting of the 1965 Voting Rights Act by the Roberts Court.
Governor Hochul matches amount requested by the Public Campaign Finance Board.
President Biden announced that he is granting commutations to nearly 2,500 people serving sentences for nonviolent drug offenses.
The decision is an important acknowledgment that the death penalty is unevenly applied based on differences of geography, race, and legal representation.
Decision follows Adams’s federal indictment on corruption charges and reports of his campaign’s failure to cooperate with the board.
Today President Biden granted clemency to nearly 1,500 individuals, a record high for a single day by any president. There are thousands more who deserve the same.