Court Case

The Brennan Center, Protect Democracy, and others filed an administrative appeal and renewed the request that the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security either rescind or correct a highly misleading and flawed report purporting to provide evidence of the non-existent connection between immigration and criminality.

The Wisconsin Assembly Democratic Campaign Committee is challenging Wisconsin’s 2011 state assembly district plan as a partisan gerrymander in violation of the Assembly Democrats’ associational rights under the First Amendment.

The Brennan Center, the Drug Policy Alliance, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the Law Enforcement Action Partnership, Americans for Prosperity, FreedomWorks Foundation, the Independence Institute, Libertas Institute, the Drug Policy Forum of Hawai‘i, the Colorado Criminal Defense Bar, Alabama Appleseed Center for Law and Justice, and the Rio Grande Foundation, represented by Holwell Shuster & Goldberg LLP, filed an amicus brief in Timbs v Indiana arguing that the Eighth Amendment’s Excessive Fines Clause should be applied to the states.

The Brennan Center is supporting North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper’s lawsuit against the state’s General Assembly. This litigation arises out of the Republican-dominated North Carolina Legislature’s efforts to use affirmative misleading ballot language for constitutional amendments that would cement partisan control of the state.

The Brennan Center and American Oversight have filed a lawsuit against the Department of Justice to compel compliance with a FOIA request seeking details on DOJ’s voter registration investigation.

On August 2, 2018, a citizen in Missouri filed suit in Missouri state court to block a ballot proposal that would change the criteria for drawing Missouri’s state legislative maps.

The Voting Rights Act was passed in 1965 to ensure state and local governments do not pass laws or policies that deny American citizens the equal right to vote based on race. On June 25, 2013, the Supreme Court swept away a key provision of this landmark civil rights law in Shelby County v. Holder.

The Campaign Legal Center filed a lawsuit under the Freedom of Information Act to compel the Department of Justice to release documents related to its request to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census.

Rio Grande Foundation v. City of Santa Fe, et al. is a suit that challenges a campaign finance disclosure law in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Three African American voters in Mississippi filed a lawsuit alleging that State Senate District 22 violates Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.