The hundreds of legal challenges to executive actions expose the administration’s efforts to seize legislative authority.

Today the Brennan Center published a study by the journalist Anna Massoglia. She found that dark money groups spent almost $2 ...

As of Thursday, the FEC Can’t Enforce Campaign Finance Laws — and That’s Only One of Its Problems The Federal Election Commission needs its ability to function restored, without sacrificing its ...

In an unprecedented move, the Department of Justice has canceled more than $810 million in grants already awarded in recent ...

The 2024 federal election cycle was the most secretive since the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision in 2010. Dark money groups, nonprofits and shell companies that spend on elections without ...

DHS Social Media Monitoring Pilot Programs: A 2017 DHS Inspector General report disclosed three DHS pilot programs that used automated search tools for social media screening of refugee and ...

Elizabeth “Liza” Goitein is senior director of the Brennan Center’s Liberty and National Security Program. Before joining the Brennan Center, Goitein served as counsel to Sen. Russ Feingold, chair of ...

A federal court ruled that the U.S. Election Assistance Commission must halt implementation of the voting and elections executive order’s mandate to require documentary proof of citizenship in federal ...

Update 4/24/25: A federal court has temporarily blocked the U.S. Election Assistance Commission from implementing a mandate in the president’s executive order to add a requirement to show a passport ...