From cybersecurity assessments and training to coordination with law enforcement agencies, state governments need to provide ...

The Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements, or “SAVE,” program was designed to help states verify the citizenship and ...

States must step up to help election officials protect their staff, facilities, and voting systems. Election resiliency is about making sure that attacks and other disruptive incidents do not impede ...

At the same time, Trump continues to blare that crime is rampant and immigrants are to blame. As he defunds violence ...

Instead, the justices found another path — a sneakier one. Repeatedly, they have let Trump amass vast new power, and they ...

On July 1, Congress passed a budget bill that gives an unprecedented $45 billion for building new immigration detention centers, including family detention facilities. This massive increase in ...

The new legislation would require American citizens to produce documents like a passport or birth certificate to register to vote. Update: On April 10, the House passed the SAVE Act. The Senate has ...

For over a century, the Enforcement Acts have protected the civil rights guaranteed by the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments from infringement by extremist groups such as the Ku Klux Klan. Project 2025, ...

The Brennan Center and co-counsel filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of civil rights and voting organizations challenging President Trump’s March 2025 executive order on elections.

In 2022, the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, Spirit Lake Tribe, and three Native American voters filed a federal lawsuit challenging North Dakota’s 2021 state legislative redistricting plan.

Local election officials are concerned about the loss of federal support for election security and hope state and local governments will step in to fill the void.

Recent efforts to improve pretrial justice offer lessons for advocates.