Will politicians finally respond?

The president is desperate to suppress the vote. Local officials, lawyers, nonprofits, and everyday citizens are resisting him every step of the way.

The war in the Middle East launched by President Trump continues to unfold. Underneath the headlines and the chaos, something else is going on. Recent report...

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The executive branch is interfering in U.S. elections in unprecedented ways.

The administration’s militarized immigration crackdown is eroding civil liberties — and it comes amid ICE’s resistance to lawful congressional oversight.

The administration’s militarized immigration crackdown is eroding civil liberties — and it comes amid ICE’s resistance to lawful congressional oversight.

In every generation, the Declaration of Independence has stood for a more expansive promise of freedom and equality.

In his speech at the Brennan Center's 2013 Legacy Awards Dinner, award-winning journalist Bill Moyers outlines the "unfinished work" that remains to be done in America's systems of democracy and justi...

The Supreme Court shouldn’t back down.

On May 12, 2025, the Brennan Center for Justice filed an amicus brief in Emily Ley Paper et al., v. Trump, opposing the government's motion to transfer the case to the United States Court of Internati...

The president also downplayed fears of a recession and spoke of potential successors when his four-year term ends in an NBC interview.

Tariffs and favoritism are signs of a poisoned political era.

Tariffs and favoritism are signs of a poisoned political era.

Powers originally crafted to give the president flexibility in rare moments of crisis now form the backbone of Trump's agenda.

Michael Waldman, president of the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, discusses the sweeping action requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote in federal elections.

President Trump's executive order is almost certain to be struck down.

A dangerous wartime authority is broad enough that it could be used for mass deportations in the absence of war.

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The long-shot proposal by Sen. Peter Welch (D-Vermont) and outgoing Sen. Joe Manchin III (I-West Virginia) would impose 18-year term limits on new justices.