The justices consider tossing a decades-old tool to fight racial discrimination when it comes to fair representation.

Proposed changes to how the military acquires and tests weapons expose taxpayers to more wasteful spending while undermining ...

Not only is the term “insurrection” a wild exaggeration to describe the protests in Portland, but it’s also an obvious wink to the Insurrection Act. That law, last amended in the 1870s, gives ...

Hundreds of law enforcement agencies lack the safeguards needed to prevent officers from misusing social media to target First Amendment activity and minorities. Our best practices show how to fill ...

Since May, the Justice Department has sent demands to at least 39 states for copies of their statewide voter registration files. The Civil Rights Division is asking for troves of confidential voter ...

Since this report was released, a number of states have enacted laws prohibiting guns at election locations. An updated chart summarizing state prohibitions is here. Over the last 20 years, several ...

Purporting to go after “domestic terrorism,” the president presents an imagined left-wing conspiracy and authorizes punishments for even tenuous connections to speech the administration doesn’t like.

The political prosecution of a presidential enemy has left the government with a seemingly unwinnable case — and a justice system tainted by politics. The power of the prosecutor is tremendous, ...

This November, Americans will vote in another close election for the House of Representatives. If polls are correct, either party could emerge with a slender majority. But, despite a competitive ...

Last November, days after Ohio voters enshrined the right to abortion in the state’s constitution, a group of state legislators said they would not let courts enforce the new provision. Despite the ...

This essay is part of the Brennan Center’s series examining the punitive excess that has come to define America’s criminal legal system. The history of such punitive funding stretches back to ...

70.9 percent of white voters cast ballots compared with only 58.4 percent of nonwhite voters — a disparity that will worsen with new restrictive voting laws. In the 2020 election, voter turnout surged ...