The Briefing
Brennan Center, Michael WaldmanOur democracy is facing the biggest crisis in decades. The Briefing is a weekly deep dive by Brennan Center experts into the key issues impacting our democracy.
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2025: Year in Review
This year we saw extraordinary threats to American democracy: an executive power grab, attacks on the freedom to vote, and more. Yet we also saw a growing response, from court rulings to citizen alarm. What happened? And what can we expect ...
A New Playbook for Countering Originalism in Court
John Marshall, the great early chief justice, believed that the Constitution should be a document understood broadly by its principles. He wrote: “We must never forget that it is a constitution we are expounding . . . intended to endure for...
Bush v. Gore and the State of U.S. Elections
For a generation, presidential races were blowouts. Every winner between 1980 and 1996 won by at least 37 Electoral College votes. These landslides relegated conspiracy theories about contested elections to the political fringes.
Supreme Court Hammers Away at Democracy
The 2026 election will take place in a political system that is divided, discordant, flagrantly gerrymandered, and marked by widening racial discrimination. Thank Chief Justice John Roberts and his colleagues on the Supreme Court. And the s...
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