In March 2025, two members of the DOGE team communicated with a political advocacy group that was seeking to “find evidence ...

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

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 ...

A newspaper reports on challenges of Black voters in Wake County, North Carolina. The Daily State Journal (Alexandria, VA), July 29, 1872 (Library of Congress). The first laws allowing private ...

Election deniers are abusing voter roll procedures, using false claims of widespread fraud to contest people’s eligibility to be on the rolls or cast a ballot. Since 2020, mass voter challenges have ...

The Brennan Center represents parties challenging government policies and files friend-of-the-court briefs in numerous lawsuits.

This series of state-level guides highlights the safeguards in place to ensure that poll workers cannot disrupt election processes. Poll workers play a vital role in administering elections. They ...

Foreign influence is a persistent threat to U.S. elections, and three countries — China, Iran, and Russia — are poised to attempt to influence the 2026 midterms. Though their behavior is not new, this ...

Congress surrendered its most powerful check over the Department of Homeland Security earlier this month when it added $70 billion for immigration enforcement to the agency’s already massive budget.

A federal court today declared unconstitutional key portions of President Trump’s executive order restricting mail voting. The executive order, issued in March 2026, unlawfully attempted to seize ...

At the end of 2024, it was revealed that an 81-year-old member of the House was living in an assisted living facility and experiencing “dementia issues” after missing months of votes. In 2023, a ...

This article was originally published by Cardozo Law Review. This year, we celebrate the 250th anniversary of our independence. In January 1776, Thomas Paine published Common Sense. Paine was an ...