Birthright citizenship is in the Constitution. The first sentence of the 14th Amendment reads, “All persons born or ...

The Major Questions newsletter from Jesse Wegman will put rulings in context and explore ways to fix the Court.

A handful of wealthy donors dominate electoral giving and spending in the United States. We need limits on campaign finance, transparency, and effective enforcement of these rules — along with public ...

Most Americans don’t know what it’s like inside the United States’ 1,664 state and federal prisons. 1 Yet even those who believe the primary purpose of incarceration is to deter crime or to inflict ...

Federal law explicitly bans the deployment of federal troops or other armed federal agents to polling places. Specifically, 18 U.S.C. § 592 makes it a crime punishable by up to five years in prison to ...

Editor’s note: A more recent snapshot of state-level voting laws — both expansive and restrictive — can be found here. Across the country, the effort to restrict the vote continues, with a wave of ...

The letter from Brennan Center President Michael Waldman urges the Senate to reject the SAVE America Act which, like the SAVE Act before it, would block millions of eligible American citizens from ...

Mike German is a former fellow in the Brennan Center’s Liberty and National Security Program, which seeks to ensure that the U.S. government respects human rights and fundamental freedoms in ...