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.

With a strong bipartisan vote, lawmakers have agreed to a create a fairer process for drawing the state’s election maps. Virginia lawmakers overwhelmingly approved a proposal on Saturday to create a ...

A federal judge in Texas made news in January when he allowed a suit filed by Idaho, Kansas, and Missouri to proceed against the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of medication abortion, based ...

Ahead of the 2026 midterms, Trump administration allies have floated the possibility that federal immigration agents could interfere at polling sites this fall, a scenario that would violate federal ...

Fossil fuel interests donated heavily to President Trump’s 2024 reelection bid. Months after his victory, oil and gas moguls have continued to pump money into his political coffers. Now, as promised ...

Summary: Financial incentives throughout the criminal justice system encourage punitive enforcement and sustain mass incarceration. Realigning them will require action from municipalities to the ...

The presidential election cannot be canceled — the Constitution requires that presidential elections take place this year. No one, not even the president, can cancel the presidential election.

This interactive resource gives voters an overview of how voter ID, mail voting, and ballot collection laws have changed since the last presidential election in 2020. Overly burdensome ID requirements ...

Over the years, small donor public financing has emerged as the most powerful antidote to the outsize influence of megadonors in our elections. By enabling and incentivizing candidates to rely on ...

After the 2010 election, state lawmakers nationwide started introducing hundreds of harsh measures making it harder to vote. The new laws range from strict photo ID requirements to early voting ...

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 ...