Friend-of-the-Court Brief

Legal historian Jane Manners, represented by the Brennan Center and Friedman Kaplan Seiler Adelman & Robbins LLP, filed a brief challenging the removal of a commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission. 

The Brennan Center and Ropes & Gray LLP filed an amicus brief urging the First Circuit to uphold contribution limits for super PACs in Maine. 

Legal historian Jane Manners represented by Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP, Friedman Kaplan Seiler Adelman & Robbins LLP, and the Brennan Center filed a brief challenging the removal of a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors.

Legal historian Jane Manners represented by the Brennan Center and Friedman Kaplan Seiler Adelman LLP has filed a brief challenging the removal of a member of the Federal Labor Relations Authority.

The Brennan Center and Steptoe LLP filed an amicus brief urging the Supreme Court to reject the petitioners’ argument that limits on coordinated party expenditures violate the First Amendment.

Members of Congress filed a brief defending the independence of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board.

Legal historian Jane Manners and her counsel Friedman Kaplan Seiler Adelman LLP and the Brennan Center filed a brief challenging the removal of independent agency officials with the Consumer Product Safey Commission. 

The Brennan Center filed a friend-of-the-court brief in a Louisiana redistricting case where the Supreme Court has asked parties to address whether Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act continues to be constitutional.

The Brennan Center and co-counsel Levine Lee filed an amicus brief on behalf of former New York judges and justices in defense of New York’s Protect Our Courts Act, arguing that ICE’s warrantless civil arrests at courthouses undermines the proper functioning of state courts. 

On November 17, 2025, the district court granted New York’s motion to dismiss.

A group of 4 voting rights historians represented by Mayer Brown LLP have filed a brief in Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians v. Howe, an appeal involving Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act (VRA).