Numerous candidates for offices that will play central roles in running the 2024 elections have made election denialism a cornerstone of their campaigns. A new Brennan Center resource finds that supporters of the Big Lie that Trump won in 2020 are winning key primary races and leading fundraising efforts. The high stakes of these 2022 contests have spurred campaign financing to unprecedented heights: in six battleground states, secretary of state candidates have collectively raised $13.3 million, more than two and a half times what they had netted by this point in the 2018 cycle.

So far this year, six states have enacted nine laws that leave election processes and results vulnerable to partisan tampering. Legislators have continued to use baseless voter fraud claims as justification for laws that undermine voters’ confidence in elections and make it harder to vote. Alarmingly, another 17 such bills are moving through five state legislatures. The latest edition of the Brennan Center’s Voting Laws Roundup covers existing and proposed legislation that affects election integrity and the right to vote.

Amid renewed attention on gun regulations following the Texas school massacre and more than a dozen mass shootings over the Memorial Day weekend, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority is expected to strike down a century-old New York handgun licensing law. Andrew Cohen and Duke Law professor Darrell Miller discuss what this decision could mean for the Second Amendment and how it may herald looser gun restrictions across the country.

The leaked Supreme Court draft opinion overruling Roe v. Wade rang alarm bells nationwide about the conservative justices’ willingness to move the law far to the right of where it has been. In addition to abortion and gun rights lawsuits, also on the docket are cases about the separation of church and state and the EPA’s ability to act against climate change. The Court’s approach to these cases will be a major indicator for how radically its conservative wing could reshape American law and society.

Since securing the right to vote in 1924, Native Americans have faced various disenfranchisement efforts. Voter suppression laws are often designed to disproportionately impact voters in these communities by targeting their already limited access to drop boxes and election offices and by imposing burdensome voting requirements. Our new explainer details assaults on Native Americans’ right to vote, past and present.

The U.S. government is using a post-9/11 law intended to spy on foreigners overseas to search Americans’ phone calls, emails, and text messages without a warrant. A recent government report disclosed that in 2021 alone, the FBI conducted 3.4 million such warrantless searches of private communications. Congress must act to protect Americans from the misuse of government surveillance powers.

Across the country, state supreme courts fail to reflect the diversity of the communities they serve. Notably, there are no justices of color in 20 states, and 9 states have only one female justice. The Brennan Center’s new update on the issue details the current racial, ethnic, gender, and professional disparities on high court benches. Progress is needed to create a fair justice system and earn public trust.

Who Gets to Be an American:
Race, Fear, and Surveillance in Domestic Policy
Wednesday, June 8, 1–2 p.m. ET
Americans of color are frequently subjected to undue suspicion, greater surveillance, and other policies that contradict the American promise of equality. Join us for a live discussion on these often discriminatory practices and the efforts to fight against them with moderator Faiza Patel, co-director of the Brennan Center’s Liberty & National Security Program; Sahar Aziz, executive director of the Rutgers Law School’s Center for Security, Race and Rights; Ann Chih Lin, director of the University of Michigan’s Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies; and Vicki B. Gaubeca, director of the Southern Border Communities Coalition. RSVP today.