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.
Professors Jonathan Gienapp and Andrea Scoseria Katz, represented by Kaplan Martin LLP, filed a brief challenging the removal of a commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission.
A group of 4 voting rights historians represented by Mayer Brown LLP requested that the Supreme Court grant certiorari in Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians v. Howe.
A bipartisan group of former state attorneys general, represented by the Brennan Center and co-counsel Democracy Defenders Fund and Perry Law LLC, filed an amicus brief challenging the prosecution of New York State Attorney General Letitia James.