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Can Trump Vote Now That He Has Felony Convictions?
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Trump’s eligibility to vote this fall will depend on the outcome of his New York sentencing and pending prosecutions.
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on Sep 5
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Voting Rights Are the Top Priority
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Reforms protecting the freedom to vote should be the first laws enacted in 2025.
on Thu, 11PM
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Voting Rights Litigation Tracker
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As state legislatures enact policies to make it harder to vote, court battles loom.
on Sep 15
From brennancenter.org
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Voter purges are an often-flawed process of cleaning up voter rolls by deleting names from registration lists. The Brennan Center works to ensure that they are nondiscriminatory and do not disenfranchise eligible voters.
on Sep 12
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From the People Who Brought You Project 2025: Manufactured Evidence of Voter Fraud
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While the Heritage Foundation has previously spread disinformation about purported noncitizen voting, the organization has now turned to desperate measures in search of nonexistent voter fraud.
on Sep 11
From brennancenter.org
The First Amendment Doesn’t Create a Right to Bribery
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The Supreme Court’s tolerance for corruption emboldens officials who seek to enrich themselves at the public’s expense.
on Sep 4
From brennancenter.org
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Voters in almost half the country will face new voting restrictions in the upcoming general election.
on Sep 4
From brennancenter.org
Deepfakes, Elections, and Shrinking the Liar’s Dividend
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Heightened public awareness of the power of generative AI could give politicians an incentive to lie about the authenticity of real content.
on Sep 3
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Foreign Adversaries Are Targeting the 2024 Election
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Microsoft’s recent report reveals large-scale efforts by Iran, Russia, and China to divide the nation and corrode public trust in democracy.
on Sep 1
From brennancenter.org
How Voting Laws Have Changed in Battleground States Since 2020
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Most have made it harder to vote, but others have expanded access.
on Aug 30
From brennancenter.org
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Election officials and college communities can collaborate to ensure that students can vote free of obstacles and confusion.
on Aug 30
From brennancenter.org
Georgia’s State Election Board Could Undermine Election Transparency
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Board members are attempting to replace Fulton County’s independent election monitors with partisans who could fuel distrust in the state’s elections.
on Aug 30
From brennancenter.org
Project 2025 Aims to Derail Efforts to Stop Election Disinformation
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The agenda for a conservative presidential administration would empower election deniers to spread false claims.
on Aug 30
From brennancenter.org
Some Good News for Donald Trump: We Already Use Paper Ballots
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Around 98 percent of all votes will be cast on paper in the 2024 general election.
on Aug 30
From brennancenter.org
Analyzing the First Step Act’s Impact on Criminal Justice
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Backed by a bipartisan coalition of lawmakers, the 2018 law made important changes to federal sentencing rules and provided much-needed prison reforms.
on Aug 30
From brennancenter.org
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Data from 33 cities across the country discredits the claim that bail reform causes crime to increase.
on Aug 30
From brennancenter.org
Why Term Limits for Supreme Court Justices Make Sense
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Term limits are good policy and can be implemented by statute.
on Aug 29
From brennancenter.org
The Curious History of ‘What Did the President Know, and When Did He Know It?’
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A half-century ago an ally helped bring down a president with one simple question.
on Aug 29
From brennancenter.org
Noncitizens Are Not Voting in Federal or State Elections — Here’s Why
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States have multiple systems in place to deter noncitizen voting. Those who violate the law face prison time and deportation.
on Aug 23
From brennancenter.org
The Originalist Fiction of a Race-Neutral Constitution is Damaging Civil Rights Law
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A Supreme Court ruling based on an ahistorical reading of the Constitution has encouraged attacks on race-inclusive policies and diversity and social justice initiatives.
on Aug 23
From brennancenter.org
Term Limits and a Binding Ethics Code Can Save the Supreme Court from Itself
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President Biden’s proposal reflects broad, bipartisan support for major reform.
on Aug 16
From brennancenter.org
Election Deniers Continue Attempts to Meddle with Certification – But the Process Is Resilient
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Georgia’s State Election Board made it easier to delay certification, but disputes do not mean problems with the election.
on Aug 13
From brennancenter.org
Restoring the Voting Rights Act
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The 59th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act underscores the urgent need to protect the freedom to vote, especially for people of color.
on Aug 10
From brennancenter.org
The Election Deniers’ Playbook for 2024
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The attempts to undermine safe and secure elections are evolving.
on Aug 10
From brennancenter.org
How to Protect the 2024 Election
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States must make key reforms to defend against election subversion.
on Aug 10
From brennancenter.org
Fact Check: Trump’s Georgia Call to Raffensperger
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The former president made a slew of false claims in asking the Georgia secretary of state to overturn the 2020 election results.
on Aug 9
From brennancenter.org
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A former U.S. attorney breaks down the challenges and choices the special counsel now faces in prosecuting Trump.
on Aug 7
From brennancenter.org
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Our democratic institutions urgently need strengthening against authoritarian threats.
on Aug 3
From brennancenter.org
How to Harden Our Defenses Against an Authoritarian President
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A commander in chief with little concern for legal limits holds a big advantage over any lawful effort to restrain him.
on Aug 3
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Project 2025’s Plan for Cybersecurity Agency Threatens Election Security
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Gutting the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency will leave our democracy more vulnerable to attack from malign actors at home and abroad.
on Aug 2
From brennancenter.org
How Congress Can Limit the Damage of the Supreme Court’s Awful Trump v. U.S. Ruling
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Lawmakers must reclaim their constitutional role as a check on the presidency.
on Aug 2
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Internal Atlanta Police Records Reveal Monitoring of ‘Cop City’ Opponents’ Political Activity
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The documents show inappropriate police surveillance of social media posts about pizza nights and study groups.
on Jul 31
From brennancenter.org
A Changing Campaign Finance Landscape
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Democracy reform legislation must address the role of money in politics.
on Jul 26
From brennancenter.org
Supreme Court Ruling on Regulation Means Congress Must Boost Its Technical Expertise
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The reversal of the 1984 Chevron decision disempowers agencies at a time when the country faces urgent technological and scientific challenges, from AI to climate change.
on Jul 26
From brennancenter.org
New Energy for Supreme Court Reform
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The Kohlberg Center on the U.S. Supreme Court will invest over the long term in research, public education, and policy advocacy for reform.
on Jul 26
From brennancenter.org
Legal Protections from Election Subversion and Voter Suppression
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Numerous federal and state laws guard against attempts by election deniers to intimidate voters or election workers. Laws also detail what poll workers and election observers can and can’t do.
on Jul 24
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Violent Crime Is Falling Nationwide — Here’s How We Know
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Preliminary FBI data, however imperfect, confirms a sharp downward trend in crime, undercutting attempts to blame criminal justice reform for pandemic-era spikes in violence.
on Jul 22
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New Georgia Law Spurs Bogus Challenges to Voter Eligibility
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The law allows challenges that threaten to disenfranchise voters and distract election workers from doing their job.
on Jul 21
From brennancenter.org
History Proves That Presidents Can Be Held Accountable
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The Supreme Court should move quickly to reject Trump's claim to presidential immunity from criminal prosecution.
on Jul 18
From brennancenter.org
Debunking the Myth of the ‘Migrant Crime Wave’
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Data does not support claims that the United States is experiencing a surge in crime caused by immigrants.
on Jul 13
From brennancenter.org
A Dangerous Vision for the Presidency
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Project 2025 proposes a giant leap for authoritarianism.
on Jul 13
From brennancenter.org
The Voting Rights Act Explained
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The landmark 1965 law is one of the most successful civil rights measures in history, but the Supreme Court has eviscerated it.
on Jul 4
From brennancenter.org
Supreme Court’s Radical Immunity Ruling Shields Lawbreaking Presidents and Undermines Democracy
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The Court’s opinion in Trump v. United States is a dangerous attack on the rule of law.
on Jul 2
From brennancenter.org
The Racial Turnout Gap 11 Years After SCOTUS Diminished the Voting Rights Act in Shelby County
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Since Shelby County v. Holder, voting rights experts have continued to try to mitigate the decision's damage and convince Congress to do its own repair work.
on Jun 28
From brennancenter.org
How Big Business Bailed Out the Nazis
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A tragic tale of what can go wrong when profits are entangled with politics.
on Jun 26
From brennancenter.org
Limits on Voter Eligibility Challenges
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State and federal laws guard voters against unfounded challenges to their eligibility.
on Jun 26
From brennancenter.org
Black and Latino Voting Power Under Threat in Redistricting Case
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A federal appeals court in Texas is considering whether to reverse a precedent allowing minority voter coalitions to jointly sue over racial discrimination.
on Jun 26
From brennancenter.org
Laws Protecting Voters and Election Workers from Intimidation
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Numerous federal and state laws and policies guard against voter intimidation, election worker intimidation, and disruption of the voting process.
on Jun 26