Nearly all election jurisdictions across the country use voting machines to count ballots because they are more accurate, faster, and cheaper than counting all ballots by hand. Hand counts fail when ...

Since May, the Justice Department has demanded that nearly every state and Washington, DC, hand over election-related records and data, such as full copies of statewide voter registration lists and ...

With 112 days to go until Election Day, President Trump’s drive to undermine the vote continues. As time runs short, his ...

A federal judge in Texas made news in January when he allowed a suit filed by Idaho, Kansas, and Missouri to proceed against the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of medication abortion, based ...

This article was first published at Just Security. Following two days of turbulent protests over ICE raids in Los Angeles County, President Trump issued a memorandum on Saturday night purporting to ...

Our study shows that women and officeholders of color face the brunt of threats and harassment. State-level reforms must be passed to preserve diversity. This was originally published in Ms. Magazine.

Restoring key privacy protections will benefit both national security and civil liberties. Six weeks after the attacks of 9/11, Congress passed the USA Patriot Act. The 131-page law was enacted ...

Political philosopher Simone de Beauvoir wrote that “even when violence does not appear explicitly, it haunts the world.” The specter of violence haunts the United States. Shaped by the brutality of ...

The midterms are just months away, yet the Trump administration has spent the last year systematically slashing agency staff and scuttling initiatives responsible for detecting and disrupting foreign ...

Today the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law published Revenue Over Public Safety: How Perverse Financial Incentives Warp the Criminal Justice System, which catalogs the ways our justice ...

A new Brennan Center survey of local election officials from around the country shows that many election officials have left the field, and more plan to go. In 2020, confronted with the Covid-19 ...

When violent crime spiked during the Covid-19 pandemic, many voices in politics and the media found a convenient scapegoat: bail reform. But is bail reform really why crime rose? A recent study I ...