Proving Who You Are: The Legal Battle Over Voter ID Laws
In the wake of challenges to voter ID laws, courts begin to rule as midterm elections draw near.
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How the NRA Rewrote the Second Amendment
The Founders never intended to create an unregulated individual right to a gun. Today, millions believe they did. Here’s how it happened. -
High-Dollar 2014 Primary Elections
Several patterns have emerged in the 2014 election season’s high-dollar competitive primaries. This analysis looks at Tea Party fundraising, candidate-specific super PACs, self-financed candidates, and more. -
Nebraska Registration Law Improves Elections Systems
A new bipartisan bill will modernize voter registration and bring Nebraska’s election system into the 21st century. It’s also the first modernization bill to pass since the president’s voting commission recommended it as a key way to improve elections. -
Voting Laws Roundup 2014
Voting rights continues to be a highly contentious issue in America. This is the Brennan Center’s regularly-updated, comprehensive roundup of introduced, pending, active, and passed voting bills. -
Trial Courts Update: Vacancies Higher After Filibuster Reform
Three months after Senate Democrats reformed the filibuster rules for executive and judicial nominees, Senate obstruction continues in new forms while courts and litigants continue to pay the price. -
Champion Magazine: Using Economics and Science to End Mass Incarceration
“Results-oriented” funding policies condition dollars on meeting performance outcomes. They can hold criminal justice agencies and actors accountable to producing results that reduce crime without unnecessarily locking people up. By enacting such policies across the board, state legislatures and the federal government can begin to curb mass incarceration — the greatest civil rights crisis of our time — while equalizing the ghastly racial disparities in the system. -
Small Donors Can Outweigh Wealthy Few
A recent op-ed claims small donor public financing will do nothing to cure Albany’s corruption crisis. But comprehensive reform would empower average citizens and allow candidates to rely on small contributions, not big special interest money. -
Virginia Offers Lessons for Voter List Maintenance
Everyone benefits from accurate and up-to-date voter rolls. However, best practices must be in place to make sure that cleanup efforts do not block eligible voters from the franchise. -
Updated Federal Trial Court Vacancy Figures
The three recent filibuster fights are just one symptom of a larger problem with Senate obstruction. Most of the controversy has focused on federal appeals courts, but trial courts face similar challenges.
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