NJ voters: your election officials, law enforcement, and community members are working hard to ensure your elections are free, fair, safe and secure. You can vote with confidence!!

President Trump is using the Justice Department as a weapon against his political enemies. Today NY Attorney General Letitia James was indicted after the president demanded her prosecution. Yesterday James Comey pled not guilty to charges brought against him at the president's request. 1/2

The Trump administration is pressuring states to hand over sensitive information about voters. The Brennan Center is tracking the DOJ’s requests and how states respond. bit.ly/3JFbKaB

Keep track of the actions the Trump Administration is taking to undermine elections here: www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

Read @ariberman.bsky.social on the ways in which the Trump Administration is laying the foundation to threaten the 2026 election. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

“[Trump’s] proposed census shake-up threatens to destabilize this process for partisan political gain. . . . We know this playbook because Trump tried and failed to exploit the census along these lines last time he was in office.” — @wendyweiser.bsky.social and @tomtmwolf.bsky.social

Did the WaPo editorial board seriously suggest that Congress abolishing the filibuster (its own rule) to pass election legislation within its constitutional authority is similar to the president taking over elections without any constitutional authority? www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Trump's proposed executive order on elections is flatly illegal & unconstitutional. Presidents have no lawful role in running elections. Only the states and Congress do. Courts have already rejected his prior elections EO on this basis. This claim of authority to take over elections is chilling.

MUST READ >> A new report from @brennancenter.org lays out a coordinated strategy being enacted by the Trump Administration to undermine free, fair, and secure elections using the federal government itself. Learn more: www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

New curtain raiser on the Trump Administration's concerted efforts to undermine elections. While attacks on elections are (sadly) not new, the effort to mobilize the power of the federal govt in service of those attacks is very new & very dangerous. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

"There are voters like me who followed the rules, provided all the information election officials asked for when they registered to vote…. Please, do not remove the voices of registered North Carolina voters." - Mary Kay Heling, North Carolina voter www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...

Today President Trump said that birthright citizenship just "had to do with the babies of slaves." That is plainly wrong. Historian Martha Jones & the Brennan Center's Historians Council member Kate Masur explain that the history says otherwise here: www.brennancenter.org/media/14006/...

Today President Trump said that birthright citizenship just "had to do with the babies of slaves." That is plainly wrong. Historian Martha Jones & the Brennan Center's Historians Council member Kate Masur explain that the history says otherwise here: www.brennancenter.org/media/14006/...

Today President Trump said that birthright citizenship just “had to do with the babies of slaves." That is plainly wrong. Historian Martha Jones & the Brennan Center's Historians Council member Kate Masur explain that the history says otherwise here: www.brennancenter.org/media/14006/...

The court’s ruling does, however, seriously weaken the tools available to federal courts to enforce adherence to the law. In that way, it has emboldened executive abuse of power.

Great thread. Agree this is madness. Let’s not underestimate the ability of litigants to craft effective new strategies to protect every person’s citizenship rights.

FIRST OPINION: TRUMP V CASA Court grants Trump's request to narrow the injunctions against his birthright citizenship EO

It's worth keeping in mind, insofar as today's #SCOTUS ruling is going to put a lot of pressure on federal district courts to certify nationwide class actions, that part of why nationwide classes have become harder to certify is because of ... the Supreme Court: www.stevevladeck.com/p/bonus-136-...

Remember that the EO purporting to limit birthright citizenship is just as unconstitutional today as it was yesterday. The constitution makes clear that babies born in the U.S. are American citizens. Period.

The Brennan Center for Justice is horrified and saddened by today’s shootings in Minnesota. We’re thinking about the victims and their families. 1/3

Assassins dress like cops & the secret police wear masks and no ID

This is one of the most significant & alarming takeaways from yesterday's SCOTUS argument in the birthright citizenship case: the Solicitor General of the US asserted that the administration does not always have to follow the decisions of federal appeals courts. www.newsweek.com/amy-coney-ba...

All presidents, including Trump, swear an oath to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution as they take office. There is no question that the president is required to uphold it. www.google.com/search?q=vid...

Vanita Gupta and Peter Keisler, top DOJ officials under Biden and G.W. Bush, point to the damage done by law firms' deals with the Trump administration. thehill.com/opinion/judi...

DOJ personnel don’t comment on anything beyond the four corners of a charging document in order to avoid prejudicing a defendant’s rights. Here’s the policy. The Attorney General of the United States violated it yesterday.

Arresting a judge for something like this is dangerous and wrong. We know that ICE's presence in courthouses makes our communities less safe. 1/2

A federal court ruled that Trump's executive order on voting seeking to require a passport or similar doc to register to vote was an unconstitutional power grab: "Our Constitution entrusts Congress and the States--not the President--with the authority to regulate federal elections," the judge found.

BIG WIN: A federal court just blocked key parts of Trump's executive order on voting purporting to require a passport or similar doc to register to vote. This was a huge & dangerous power grab-presidents don't get to rewrite election rules. And it could have thwarted millions of eligible Americans.

Trump is using his executive power for a personal vendetta—punishing 2 of his OWN fmr officials who oppose him A dangerous act of political revenge I joined 100's of bipartisan pro-democracy leaders in signing this open letter objecting - TN

Are you a woman who changed your name when you got married? Congress is considering a bill that could make it much harder for you to vote. Call your rep—this is not a drill. indivisible.org/resource/cal...

The latest in the multi-pronged presidential attack on free and fair elections is a memo targeting CISA, the agency that provided critical election security support to the states, and its former director, Chris Krebs. This is retaliation—a threat to both the rule of law & to secure elections.

As of Friday, there have been 46 cases in which federal judges have blocked Trump policies. The rulings in those cases have come from 39 different judges appointed by 5 different presidents (of both parties) to 11 different district courts across 7 different circuits. Maybe it's not the judges?

"If this many different judges in this many different courts appointed by this many different presidents are blocking this many policies promulgated by the same president, we ought to be able to agree that the problem is the policies—not the judges." www.stevevladeck.com/p/136-settin...

We sued to stop Trump’s dangerous executive order on voting & elections. Presidents have no authority to set election rules—only Congress & the states do. And his attempt to require a passport or similar doc to register is flatly illegal & could block millions. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/cou...

with @wendyweiser.bsky.social on why Trump really wants 2024 to be the last free and fair election, and @mjsdc.bsky.social on what's coming to the Supreme Court

As a prelude to Thursday's House vote, @WendyWeiser.bsky.social tells @DahliaLithwick.bsky.social, "Make no mistake, the SAVE Act is not an election integrity bill. It does nothing to improve election integrity. It is a vote suppression bill." slate.com/podcasts/ami...

New Amicus episode: @dahlialithwick.bsky.social‬ talks with @wendyweiser.bsky.social about everything that's wrong with the executive order on voting and elections. Weiser calls it "completely unlawful" and "disastrous." slate.com/podcasts/ami...

This evening, we sent a letter to the U.S. Election Assistance Commission explaining why it would be unlawful and improper for them to follow the president's recent executive order on "election integrity." With partners @aclu.org @legaldefensefund.bsky.social LWV and NAACP. Read more here.

This is how it's done. A strong and principled response by WilmerHale to the illegal Executive Order attack - a form of attempted government intimidation declared unconstitutional by a federal judge. This is how to guard the rule of law.

The White House's executive order on election integrity "would actually harm eligible American citizens," @wendyweiser.bsky.social told the Wall Street Journal. "This would be tens of millions of American citizens who could be excluded from registering from voting." www.wsj.com/politics/ele...

Trump just signed an exec order purporting to require a passport (or a few other docs) to register to vote. The president doesn't have the power to override a law passed by Congress. This is the SAVE Act but much worse. It is an illegal power grab that would block tens of millions from voting.

It’s important to counter lies about the judges ruling in abuse of power cases. Lies are being used to drum up antagonism and threats, and the judges cannot defend themselves.

If the SAVE Act became law, voters nationwide would face similar problems to those seen last week in NH, when some voters struggled to satisfy a new requirement to show documents like a birth certificate or passport to register to vote.

how do you feel about the unitary executive theory now?

And it continues. Please do not wait for them to come for you before standing up.

Law firms are being targeted for representing positions the administration doesn’t like. All other law firms need to show solidarity. And so do clients and prospective clients, judges at all levels, law schools, and law students. Firms need to feel the benefits of doing the right thing right NOW.

The Brennan Center celebrates the legacy of the NAACP's Dr. Hazel N. Dukes, a trailblazing activist who strongly believed that small donor public financing was crucial to democracy.