Myrna Perez
Ms. Pérez works on a variety of voting rights related issues, including redistricting, voter registration list maintenance, and access to the ballot box. Prior to joining the Center, Ms. Pérez was the...
View ArticleErika L. Wood
Erika L. Wood is an Associate Professor of Law at New York Law School. Prior to joining the NYLS faculty, Professor Wood was the Deputy Director of the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for...
View ArticleJustin Levitt
Justin Levitt is a professor of constitutional law and the law of democracy at Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, and a recognized national expert on election law. His work has included extensive...
View ArticleInimai M. Chettiar
Inimai M. Chettiar is the Director of the Brennan Center’s Justice Program. The Justice Program seeks to secure our nation’s promise of “equal justice for all” by creating an effective, rational and...
View ArticleRichard Pildes
Richard H. Pildes is the Sudler Family Professor of Constitutional Law at New York University School of Law. He is one of the nation’s leading scholars, lawyers, and public commentators on issues...
View ArticleBrenda Wright
Brenda Wright is the Vice President of Legal Strategies at Demos. She has led many progressive legal and policy initiatives on voting rights, campaign finance reform, redistricting, election...
View ArticleTaeku Lee
Taeku Lee’s primary research interests are in racial and ethnic politics, public opinion and survey research methods, social movements and political behavior. His book, Mobilizing Public Opinion: Black...
View ArticleLisa Danetz
Ms. Danetz is a voting rights and campaign finance lawyer who addresses issues of inequality and fairness in elections. She is an expert on implementation of Section 7 of the National Voter...
View ArticleTrevor Potter
Trevor Potter is the founding President and General Counsel of the Campaign Legal Center, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that represents the public interest in administrative, legislative and...
View ArticleWhy Did the Republicans Win the House?
I recently overheard the following conversation: X: “Obama won a solid victory. The people have made their views clear. They stand with the Democratic Party.” Y: “Not so fast. Remember that the...
View ArticleThe House GOP can’t be beat
Congress is broken, and everyone knows it. Its approval ratings hover around 10 percent, and a recent poll from Public Policy Polling found that Congress is currently less popular than cockroaches,...
View ArticleThe Noose, Ole Miss, and Free Speech
A few days ago on the campus of the University of Mississippi, someone (reportedly two males) draped a Confederate flag on a statue honoring James Meredith and hung a noose around its neck. Meredith...
View ArticleWhat Are We Healing From?
Yesterday, President Obama spoke to the American people in a live telecast concerning the tragic and untimely death of a young, African American male, Michael Brown, in Ferguson, Mo., and its...
View ArticleFrom a Tangle of Pathology to a Race-Fair America
When President Lyndon Johnson gave his June 4, 1965 commencement address at Howard University, he invoked a symbolic language that would both seize the political moment and serve as a foundation for...
View ArticleThe Tragedy in Ferguson Matters to Us All
Last night’s police violence against citizens of Ferguson, MO was an affront to democracy. There is nothing more American than a community uniting in the face of tragedy, than ordinary people...
View ArticleFair Representation Solutions to Florida’s Fair Districts Dilemma
Last month, Judge Terry P. Lewis ruled that Florida’s congressional redistricting plan was in violation of new state constitutional provisions designed to promote fair districts and requested that a...
View ArticleFerguson is not Fallujah
The shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, has sparked a long overdue discussion about the militarization of local police. The funds and equipment funneled to police departments to fight the...
View ArticlePreventing Future Fergusons
The events unfolding in Missouri have brought all eyes on the issue of law enforcement practices. Racial disparities in our justice system abound. But there is also a subtler dynamic at work: how the...
View ArticleOn Women’s Equality Day, Looking Back — and Ahead
A century ago, as Americans debated whether women should be allowed to vote, one prominent observer scoffed at the notion of voter equality. Allowing women the right to vote, the critic wrote, “would...
View ArticleThis Is the Key to Recovering Black Wealth in America
The unpunished killings of Michael Brown, Miriam Carey, Eric Garner, Tamir Rice and so many others reflect a racist criminal-justice system whose roots are economic. As the #BlackLivesMatter movement...
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