Friend-of-the-Court Brief

Overseas voters filed a brief urging a North Carolina court not to throw out their lawfully cast ballots.

Representing a bipartisan group of nine current and former election officials, the Brennan Center filed a friend-of-the-court brief in Arizona defending the state’s pro-voter policies for verifying absentee ballot signatures.

The Ninth Circuit Appeals Court affirmed, among other things that Arizonans who do not provide proof of citizenship may continue to vote in all federal elections. The Brennan Center and co-counsel, representing civic engagement and military support organizations, had filed an amicus brief urging the court to uphold 140 years of legal precedent and constitutional history that confirms Congress may regulate all federal elections, including presidential elections.

A group of 4 voting rights historians represented by Mayer Brown LLP and the Yale Law School Supreme Court Clinic have filed a brief in Nairne v. Landry, an appeal involving Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act (VRA).

A group of 4 voting rights historians represented by Mayer Brown LLP and the Yale Law School Supreme Court Clinic have filed a brief in Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. et al. v. Secretary of State of Georgia, an appeal involving Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act (VRA).

A group of 15 founding era historians represented by the Brennan Center and Friedman Kaplan Seiler Adelman LLP have filed a brief challenging Trump’s claim of immunity.

The Brennan Center and historians challenged abuses of history in cases threatening Chevron Deference.