STUCK How Money, Media, and Violence Prevent Change in Congress, book talk with Maya Kornberg & Josh Chafetz Maya Kornberg, a senior research fellow at the NYU Law’s Brennan Center for Justice, will discuss her latest publication Stuck: How Money, Media,...

How can Congress be restored at a time when Americans are losing faith in it?

@kornbergmaya.bsky.social will discuss her new book “Stuck” with Georgetown Law Professor @joshchafetz.bsky.social. This is a free event in Washington, DC, on Wed., Apr 22, at 6:30pm ET. RSVP:

The Empty Promise of the Board of Immigration Appeals As the Department of Justice’s highest immigration court quietly slashes immigrants’ rights, due process is increasingly elusive.

Since Trump’s return to office, the Board of Immigration Appeals has come under unprecedented influence from the Attorney General — reshaping rulings, limiting appeals, raising fees, and reducing transparency. bit.ly/4cCXCdW

Analyzing the President’s Executive Order on Mail Voting This bid to seize control of mail voting would wreak havoc on elections and harm American voters.

President Trump issued an executive order on mail voting that would give the USPS power over who can vote by mail — while directing DHS to build voter lists from unreliable data. bit.ly/4mhDqln

Local Election Officials Survey 2026 75 percent of local election officials have not received additional resources from their state or local government to address federal cuts to election security services. At least 71 percent of officials have done some preparation or planning for scenarios that could disrupt election administration.

At least 71% of election officials have engaged in preparation or planning for scenarios that could disrupt election administration ahead of the midterms.

Learn more in our latest survey of local election officials: bit.ly/41pYmNr

Opinion | We Disagree on a Lot. But We Know This Law Must Change.

Two senators you don’t often see together on a byline. As this important op-ed demonstrates, there’s broad bipartisan support for reforming Section 702 to protect Americans’ rights. Thank you @durbin.senate.gov & Senator Mike Lee for your leadership on this issue. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/o...

Congress should not give away its legislative power to the executive branch.

Conservative attorney Gregg Nunziata discusses the constitutional questions raised by the unitary executive theory on The Briefing with Michael Waldman: bit.ly/4cM4l5v

The People Speak in Hungary and at Home Protecting election officials means protecting democracy.

The United States can continue to have free and fair elections — but it will take organization, preparedness, and collaboration. bit.ly/4vuVfBn

Public Opinion, Credible Threats, and the Fezzik Principle History (and The Princess Bride) shows how to bring the Supreme Court into line with the American people.

The dramatic drop in public approval for the Supreme Court is a major issue for the institution, whose legitimacy depends on the public’s willingness to submit to its rulings. Jesse Wegman details what to do about it (with a little help from The Princess Bride): bit.ly/3OkW9jo

Federal Bureau Of Prisons At Crossroad For Change The Brennan Center released a report on incarceration and the need to embrace a change in how we look at it. The Bureau of Prisons is trying but time is running out.

A Brennan Center report looks at how some states are trying to reduce violence and improve conditions in prisons, and increase rehabilitation opportunities. A recent piece in @forbes.com examines how some of those same principles can be applied to federal prison reform.

Local Election Officials Survey 2026 75 percent of local election officials have not received additional resources from their state or local government to address federal cuts to election security services. At least 71 percent of officials have done some preparation or planning for scenarios that could disrupt election administration.

50% of election officials surveyed in our latest poll worry about political leaders interfering with how election officials do their job. Learn more: bit.ly/41pYmNr

The Conservatives Fighting for the Rule of Law (with Gregg Nunziata) Amid unprecedented threats to our system of checks and balances — driven by an overpowerful executive and an acquiescent Congress — a group of conservative l...

How is the conservative movement responding to the forces eroding our democratic institutions? Gregg Nunziata joined The Briefing with Michael Waldman to discuss. bit.ly/4tzJqsB

Analyzing the President’s Executive Order on Mail Voting This bid to seize control of mail voting would wreak havoc on elections and harm American voters.

Trump’s executive order on mail voting would give the USPS, an independent agency, power over who can vote by mail. ​​The Brennan Center and other groups are challenging the order in court. bit.ly/4mhDqln

Nine Solutions for Political Corruption A new era of anticorruption reform is long overdue.

We have some thoughts about what to do about it — including banning companies like Palantir that hold large government contracts from spending money on federal elections. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

The tech giant Palantir has some thoughts about the future of our Republic. This is your daily reminder that today’s unprecedented concentration of wealth and political power isn’t an inevitability. It’s a policy choice.

Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act For too long, this law has allowed the government to evade privacy protections and spy on Americans. Reform is overdue.

Congress is about to vote on renewing Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Originally meant to monitor foreigners overseas, it’s been abused to surveil Americans. This is a chance to finally protect Americans’ privacy. bit.ly/4tASUmW

The People Speak in Hungary and at Home Protecting election officials means protecting democracy.

The United States can continue to have free and fair elections — but it will take organization, preparedness, and collaboration. bit.ly/4vuVfBn

Public Opinion, Credible Threats, and the Fezzik Principle History (and The Princess Bride) shows how to bring the Supreme Court into line with the American people.

The dramatic drop in public approval for the Supreme Court is a major issue for the institution, whose legitimacy depends on the public’s willingness to submit to its rulings. Jesse Wegman details what to do about it (with a little help from The Princess Bride): bit.ly/3OkW9jo

Local Election Officials Survey 2026 75 percent of local election officials have not received additional resources from their state or local government to address federal cuts to election security services. At least 71 percent of officials have done some preparation or planning for scenarios that could disrupt election administration.

At least 71% of election officials have done some preparation or planning for scenarios that could disrupt election administration.

Learn more in our latest survey of local election officials: bit.ly/41pYmNr

The Conservatives Fighting for the Rule of Law (with Gregg Nunziata) Amid unprecedented threats to our system of checks and balances — driven by an overpowerful executive and an acquiescent Congress — a group of conservative l...

Amid unprecedented threats to checks and balances, a group of conservative lawyers and judges has coalesced to defend the Constitution. This week, Gregg Nunziata joined The Briefing with Michael Waldman to discuss their work. bit.ly/4tzJqsB

Analyzing the President’s Executive Order on Mail Voting This bid to seize control of mail voting would wreak havoc on elections and harm American voters.

Trump’s executive order on mail voting would give the USPS, an independent agency, power over who can vote by mail. ​​The Brennan Center and other groups are challenging the order in court. bit.ly/4mhDqln

The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court

This is a must-read account of shadow docket deliberations. Note Roberts' push to halt an Obama-era policy b/c it would generate "substantial and irreversible reordering of the domestic power sector." Yet SCOTUS has greenlit far more disruptive Trump-era policies. /1 www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

The People Speak in Hungary and at Home Protecting election officials means protecting democracy.

What can Victor Orbán’s defeat in Hungary tell us about democracy in the United States? Time will tell, but worldwide trends are at play.
bit.ly/4vuVfBn

Public Opinion, Credible Threats, and the Fezzik Principle History (and The Princess Bride) shows how to bring the Supreme Court into line with the American people.

The Supreme Court’s legitimacy crisis is self-created, as its right-wing majority has strayed too far from public opinion. History (and, surprisingly, The Princess Bride) offers lessons for how to bring the Court back into line with the American people. bit.ly/3OkW9jo

Tracker of Justice Department Requests for Voter Information The Trump administration is pressing state officials to provide sensitive information about voters.

The Brennan Center is tracking the DOJ’s requests for states’ voter files and how states respond.

League of Women Voters of Michigan Files Brief to Stop Justice Department from Obtaining Private Voter Data Amicus brief argues that Justice Department’s appeal to Sixth Circuit should be denied for the sake of election integrity, voters’ privacy, and the Constitution

The League of Women Voters of Michigan — represented by the Brennan Center, @campaignlegal.org, and Goodman Acker — filed a brief in the Justice Department’s lawsuit seeking the state’s unredacted voter rolls. The DOJ is putting the integrity of elections and voters’ data security at risk.

“The state of Louisiana wants to extend its burdensome proof-of-citizenship law to federal elections. This is an unnecessary and unlawful hurdle that would block many Louisianans from the ballot box.” — Eliza Sweren-Becker 2/2

Pro-Voter Groups Move to Join Louisiana’s Lawsuit Seeking Additional and Illegal Proof of Citizenship to Register to Vote in Federal Elections Louisiana sued the Election Assistance Commission on Tuesday to change the standard federal voter registration form to add unlawful and burdensome requirements for proving citizenship. Voting rights g...

Breaking: We’re representing pro-voter groups moving to intervene in Louisiana v. EAC. The state is seeking to impose new proof-of-citizenship requirements for voter registration that would violate federal law and unnecessarily burden eligible voters. 1/2

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Local Election Officials Survey 2026 75 percent of local election officials have not received additional resources from their state or local government to address federal cuts to election security services. At least 71 percent of officials have done some preparation or planning for scenarios that could disrupt election administration.

74% of election officials are concerned about the spread of false information online about elections, making it more difficult or dangerous to do their job.

Learn more in our latest survey of local election officials: bit.ly/41pYmNr

The Conservatives Fighting for the Rule of Law (with Gregg Nunziata) Watch now | Experts discuss what it will take to preserve our democracy

How is the conservative movement responding to the forces eroding our democratic institutions? Gregg Nunziata joined The Briefing with Michael Waldman to discuss. bit.ly/4eoV70f