More about the Brennan Center’s efforts to strengthen the Voting Rights Act can be found here.
Brennan Center Research Showing Evidence of Discrimination in Voting and Representation
- Alabama’s Racial Turnout Gap Hit a 16-Year High in 2024 (3/4/2025)
- Racial Turnout Gap Grew in Georgia — Again (12/23/2024)
- Study Finds Extensive Barriers Restrict Native Americans from Voting (11/21/2024)
- The Voting Rights Act Persists, but So Do Its Adversaries (8/9/2024)
- The Racial Turnout Gap 11 Years After SCOTUS Diminished the Voting Rights Act in Shelby County (6/24/2024)
- Black and Latino Voting Power Under Threat in Redistricting Case (6/17/2024)
- How SCOTUS Cited Our Voting Data While Reaching Wrong Conclusion in a Gerrymandering Case (5/24/2024)
- Black Louisianans Fight in Court to Preserve Fair Voting Map (4/5/2024)
- Racial Gaps in Voter Turnout Are Growing – and Undermining Democracy (3/8/2024)
- Growing Racial Disparities in Voter Turnout, 2008–2022 (3/2/2024)
- Accurate Data from Georgia Shows Racial Turnout Gap (8/7/2023)
- States Have Added Nearly 100 Restrictive Laws Since SCOTUS Gutted the Voting Rights Act 10 Years Ago (6/23/2023)
- 10 Years After SCOTUS Gutted Voting Rights Act, Alabama Turnout Gap Is Worse (6/22/2023)
- Georgia’s Racial Turnout Gap Grew in 2022 (12/16/2022)
- Records Show Massive Disenfranchisement and Racial Disparities in 2022 Texas Primary (10/20/2022)
- New State Laws Hit Voters of Color Hardest (8/16/2022)
- Despite High Voter Turnout, Racial Gap Persisted in Georgia Primary (8/15/2022)
- Nonwhite Voters at Higher Risk of Being Dropped from Arizona’s Mail Ballot List (8/11/2022)
- Patterns in the Introduction and Passage of Restrictive Voting Bills are Best Explained by Race (8/3/2022)
- Impacts of Restrictive Voting Legislation Since the 2020 Election (3/10/2023)
- North Carolina’s Racially Discriminatory Maps Show Why the Voting Rights Act Must Be Restored (1/18/2022)
- The Impact of Voter Suppression on Communities of Color (1/10/2022)
- Racial Turnout Gap Grew in Jurisdictions Previously Covered by the Voting Rights Act (8/20/2021)
- Voter Suppression in 2020 (8/20/2021)
- The Use of Section 2 to Secure Fair Representation (8/12/2021)
- Large Racial Turnout Gap Persisted in 2020 Election (8/6/2021)
- The New Voter Suppression (1/16/2020)
- Voter Purge Rates Remain High, Analysis Finds (8/1/2019)
- Purges: A Growing Threat to the Right to Vote (7/20/2018)
Brennan Center Testimony on the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act
- Statement for the Record – Hearing on the Right Side of History: Protecting Voting Rights in America, Before the Senate Judiciary Committee (3/12/2024)
- Testimony of Wendy Weiser at Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Protecting a Precious, Almost Sacred Right: The John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (10/6/2021)
- Testimony of Wendy Weiser at House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties Hearing on Oversight of the Voting Rights Act: Potential Legislative Reforms (8/16/2021)
- Oral Testimony of Wendy Weiser: How the John Lewis Voting Right Advancement Act Targets Discrimination (8/16/2021)
- Testimony of Sean Morales-Doyle at House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties Hearing on the Implications of Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee and Potential Legislative Responses (7/16/2021)
- Oral Testimony of Sean Morales-Doyle: Reversing the Supreme Court’s Latest Blow to Voting Rights (7/16/2021)
- Testimony of Michael Waldman at Committee on House Administration Subcommittee on Elections Hearing on Voting in America: A National Perspective on the Right to Vote, Methods of Election, Jurisdictional Boundaries, and Redistricting (6/24/2021)
- Oral testimony of Michael Waldman: Honor John Lewis and Protect the Right to Vote (6/24/2021)
- Testimony of Kevin Morris at Committee on House Administration Subcommittee on Elections Hearing on Voting in America: The Potential for Polling Place Quality and Restrictions on Opportunities to Vote to Interfere with Free and Fair Access to the Ballot (6/11/2021)
- Testimony of Wendy Weiser at Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Hearing on Oversight of the Voting Rights Act: A Continuing Record of Discrimination (5/27/2021)
- Testimony of Michael Waldman at Committee on House Administration Subcommittee on Elections Hearing on Voting Rights and Election Administration in America (10/17/2019)
- Testimony of Myrna Pérez at House Judiciary Committee Hearing on Evidence of Current and Ongoing Voting Discrimination (9/10/2019)
Brennan Center Resources Explaining the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act
- Restoring the Voting Rights Act (8/6/2024)
- Pass the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (9/19/2023)
- The John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (9/19/2023)
- The Voting Rights Act Explained (7/17/2023)
- Debunking False Claims About the John Lewis Voting Rights Act (1/13/2022)
- How to Restore and Strengthen the Voting Rights Act (1/28/2021)
- How to Fix American Democracy (1/13/2021)
Brennan Center Analysis of Recent Supreme Court Decisions on the Voting Rights Act
- Ongoing Voting Rights Act Redistricting Litigation after Merrill v. Milligan (7/5/2023)
- Shelby County v. Holder Turns 10, and Voting Rights Continue to Suffer from It (6/20/2023)
- Filling the Voting Rights Hole Left by SCOTUS in Shelby County v. Holder (6/22/2021)
- The Supreme Court Clearly Won’t Protect Voting Rights. But Congress Can. (7/7/2021)
- Election Officials Explain Why the Supreme Court Should Protect the Voting Rights Act (3/9/2021)
- The Supreme Court Case Challenging Voting Restrictions in Arizona, Explained (2/25/2021)
- 7 Years of Gutting Voting Rights (6/25/2020)
- Voting Rights in America, Six Years after Shelby v. Holder (6/25/2019)
- The Effects of Shelby County v. Holder (8/6/2018)
- Two Years After Shelby County: Congress Must Restore Voting Rights Act (6/24/2015)
- ‘Shelby County’: One Year Later (6/24/2014)
- After 'Shelby County’ Ruling, Are Voting Rights Endangered? (9/23/2013)
Other Brennan Center Commentary on the Voting Rights Act
- Restoring the Voting Rights Act (8/6/2024)
- Preclearance Under the Voting Rights Act (3/11/2024)
- The Newest Attack on the Voting Rights Act (11/21/2023)
- Voting Rights: A Critical Two Years (6/14/2022)
- Partisan Gerrymandering Is Rampant this Cycle. Congress Needs to Act. (1/12/2022)
- Why Opponents of Voting Reforms Are Wrong (1/11/2022)
- It’s Time to Stop Gerrymandering Latinos out of Political Power (11/4/2021)
- Pass the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (8/17/2021)
- Voting Rights Hang in the Balance (6/8/2021)
- Voting’s Death by a Thousand Cuts (7/20/2021)
- An Anniversary and a Call to Action (8/6/2019)
- A Chance to Revive the Voting Rights Act (10/23/2019)
- Restore the Voting Rights Act (2/4/2016)
- Congress Must Act to Restore Original Promise of Voting Rights Act (8/4/2015)
