Friend-of-the-Court Brief

On behalf of three social scientists, the Brennan Center filed a brief before the U.S. Supreme Court providing research to show the burden “show your papers” requirements place on voters.

Historians filed a brief supporting a challenge to the federal government’s policy of arresting, detaining, and deporting noncitizen students and faculty on the basis of their speech and associations.

Fifty-five former Justice Department attorneys who served under administrations of both parties filed two amicus briefs urging the First Circuit Court of Appeals to affirm district court orders quashing DOJ administrative subpoenas.

The Brennan Center filed amicus briefs on behalf of former law enforcement officials in two related cases, arguing that federal attempts to invalidate “sanctuary city” policies would undermine work by police and prosecutors to build and maintain trust with immigrant communities.

The Brennan Center, Center for Democracy and Technology, Surveillance Technology Oversight Project, and Defending Rights & Dissent submitted an amicus brief urging the Supreme Court to find a geofence warrant unconstitutional under the Fourth Amendment.

Two historians and professors of legal history represented by Kendall Brill & Kelly LLP have filed a brief supporting a challenge to President Trump’s executive order purporting to end birthright citizenship.

A group of 25 former Justice Department officials who served under administrations of different parties filed an amicus brief urging the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to affirm the district court’s order quashing a subpoena.

The Brennan Center and co-counsel, on behalf of more than 50 former military leaders and diplomats and eight organizations representing military and overseas voters, urged the Supreme Court to protect state laws that allow counting ballots that are sent by and arrive shortly after Election Day.

A group of 7 history and law professors, represented by Mayer Brown LLP, filed a brief defending the constitutionality of a federal statute prohibiting users of illegal drugs from possessing firearms. 

Professor Noah Rosenblum and Legal History Fellow Nathaniel Donahue, represented by Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP, filed a brief challenging the removal of a commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission.