Brennan Center for Justice

Opponents of health care reform have raised the specter of government-subsidized illegal immigrants flooding our medical system with their costly illnesses. In fact, as I’ve reported before and the Migration Policy Institute notes today, the real problem is that health care proposals now under consideration in Congress would drive up the nation’s health care [...]

Seven major civil rights and open government organizations today sent a letter to leaders of the House and Senate Judiciary Committees urging them to pass legislation to restrict the government’s ability to use the “state secrets” privilege to dismiss litigation charging government wrongdoing. Although the Obama administration yesterday announced a new policy in which it [...]

Despite President Obama’s previous criticism of former President George W. Bush’s “signing statements” that limit the president’s responsibility to comply with a bill passed by Congress, it turns out Obama has been doing much the same thing since he took office.  Charlie Savage reported in The New York Times on Sunday that Obama has issued [...]

The outcomes of the challenges will decide whose votes get counted and whose don’t — which in this close presidential race could make all the difference.