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Alito’s biting, political speech highlights the need for reform.

Super PACs supporting Harris or Trump raised more than twice as much from donors giving at least $5 million compared to the last election.

This year’s tidal wave of restrictive voting legislation will continue in 2022.

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A growing and unregulated trend of online surveillance raises concerns for civil rights and liberties.

Ten years after the creation of super PACs, wealthy interests use them to funnel billions into elections and make a mockery of contribution limits.

Washington hasn’t seen graft like this for at least a century.

A lawsuit forced the Metropolitan Police Department to reveal how it uses social media surveillance tools to track First Amendment–protected activity.

The 2010 Supreme Court decision further tilted political influence toward wealthy donors and corporations.

The line between public service and private gain continues to blur as financial elites secure pardons and regulatory leniency following campaign contributions.

As the Senate considers the SAVE Act, some state legislators are trying to replicate the bill’s restrictive show-your-papers requirements for voter...

It hurts ordinary Americans in concrete ways, and the risk has never been greater given today’s unprecedented mixing of private wealth with political power.

The president’s actions are legally dubious, though courts have yet to answer some of the key questions around the deployment.

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New York’s small donor public match will shift power away from megadonors.

Statistically, no relationship between stop-and-frisk and crime seems apparent. New York remains safer than it was 5, 10, or 25 years ago.

The Supreme Court is considering whether a key provision of the Voting Rights Act remains constitutional.

The technology used by police disproportionately tracked Twitter activity surrounding protests.

New ICE directive goes against longstanding policy — and the Constitution.

Concerned senators have revealed that the government is using an executive order to bypass privacy protections enacted by Congress.

The result will be a lopsided, enforcement-only machine that will be hard to dismantle.

Term limits are good policy and can be implemented by statute, a former federal appeals court judge explains.

Our courts should be bulwarks to protect civil rights, democratic values, and the rule of law — but increasingly, the promise of evenhanded justice is at...

Million-dollar donors fuel a nearly $200 million war chest to support a president who can’t run again.

If the Court blesses the president’s use of emergency powers to evade Congress, the consequences would be profound.

A mistake made in panic would be best fixed by starting over.

The practice has long been a thorn in the side of American democracy, but it’s becoming a bigger threat than ever.

Groups affiliated with congressional party leadership are taking more money than ever from secretive donors and spending it on the most competitive races.

Federal lawmakers can protect the American public by passing a new law to fully implement the Constitution’s oldest anticorruption safeguards.

A fair and equitable criminal justice system is critical for a healthy democracy. The Brennan Center champions evidence-based reforms that protect both...

The Trump administration is being open about its plans to violate Americans’ First and Fourth Amendment rights.

The historic ruling shows how states can push back against the president’s use of the military as a domestic police force.

Heightened public awareness of the power of generative AI could give politicians an incentive to lie about the authenticity of real content.

Americans still face many barriers to voting. Meanwhile, elections require secure systems and independent administration of the casting and counting of...

The vague and rarely used law gives the president broad power to deploy the military domestically — but it’s not a blank check.

Defend Democracy. Reform Justice. Protect the Constitution. The Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law works to build an America that is democratic, just, and...