The Supreme Court is responsible for letting Trump avoid consequences for his alleged crimes against democracy. In the name of accountability, the Court must not delay its decision. 1/ The Supreme Court’s time is up. It needs to let the prosecution move forward. The Court decided Bush v. Gore in three days — it should act with similar alacrity in deciding Trump v. U.S. 2/

1/ BREAKING: @RepTerriSewell has reintroduced the landmark John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act. The bill would protect voters from racial discrimination at the ballot box by restoring and strengthening the protections of the Voting Rights Act.
brennancenter.org/our-work/resea… 2/ Since the Supreme Court decided Shelby County v. Holder 10 years ago — gutting the Voting Rights Act — states have passed almost 100 laws rolling back voting rights.
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Last night @MichSoS @JocelynBenson accepted the Brennan Legacy Award, inspiring a crowd of 500+ with her fierce protection of every vote and every voice. The Brennan Center honors her commitment to free, fair, and accurate elections — a beacon for the country. Thanks to wonderful Paul Tagliabue — @RISEtoWIN, @NFL — for presenting her award, and for all he does to strengthen our democracy.

1/ The latest Brennan Center poll of local election officials shows that we are on track for more than 1 in 5 local election officials to be serving in their first presidential election in 2024. brennancenter.org/our-work/resea… 2/ This loss of institutional knowledge can impact election administration and public confidence in elections.

"This is a nation that respects free and fair elections." In his speech tonight, @POTUS assailed the wave of attacks on Americans’ voting rights. Many of these threats were inspired by lies that the 2020 election was stolen from Trump. Here’s what we’ve been tracking: 🧵 1/10 In testimony to the @January6thCmte, Brennan Center’s @WendyRWeiser showed how the Big Lie gave rise to a wave of legislation to restrict the vote 2/10 brennancenter.org/our-work/resea…

Former Twitter employee: “I was concerned the former president, for the first time, was speaking directly to extremist organizations and giving them directives.” #January6thCommitteeHearings "If President Trump were any other user on Twitter, he would have been permanently suspended a very long time ago." #January6thCommitteeHearings

Judge Luttig in closing: "Almost 2 years after that fateful day in January 2021, still Donald Trump and his allies and supporters are a clear and present danger to American democracy... 1/5 #January6thCommiteeHearings ... To this very day, the former president, his allies, and supporters pledge that in the presidential election of 2024, if the former president or his anointed successor as the Republican party presidential candidate were to lose that election, they would attempt... 2/5

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The attack on our democracy didn’t end on #January6th.

Brennan Center experts documented how the anti-democratic playbook has evolved in the year since. ⬇️ Election officials immediately came under unprecedented attacks.
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Today in Texas, the @BrennanCenter filed for a preliminary injunction so that election officials will again be allowed to advise voters to apply for mail ballots. Officials are banned from doing so under the state's restrictive voting law S.B. 1. /1 Voting by mail is perfectly legal in Texas, yet S.B. 1 forbids election officials from encouraging voters to apply for mail ballots. The punishment? Minimum of 6 months in jail and a fine of up to $10,000. /2

A federal judge has upheld the constitutionality of Pennsylvania’s mail ballot drop boxes, county residency restriction for poll watchers, and other voting rules, rejecting claims of “voter fraud” as too “speculative” and supported by “scant” evidence. The ruling, in Donald J. Trump for President v. Boockvar, will ensure that eligible Pennsylvania voters can vote safely this year.

BREAKING: We’re suing Texas Governor Greg Abbott to block him from limiting absentee ballot drop-off sites to only one per county. His plan will make it unreasonably difficult for Texans to vote by mail, and it goes beyond his legal authority. The plaintiffs — @ADLAustin, @ADLSouthwest, @ADL Texoma, and @CCauseTexas — argue with only one drop-off location per county, many voters would have to travel far and spend substantial amounts of time to cast their ballots.

Yes there are flaws in our electoral system, @mawaldman and @wendyrweiser write in @politico, but let’s all take a deep breath. There are many reasons why we shouldn’t panic about the November election. politico.com/news/magazine/… First, the states are in charge of elections, not the president. Most have taken measures to ensure safety against cyberattacks and system failures and both red and blue states have expanded absentee voting.

BREAKING: A U.S. District Court issued an order last night blocking the Trump administration’s attempts to rush the 2020 Census. This is a victory for an accurate census that counts everyone! Under the Court’s order, the census count will continue through October 31 as the Census Bureau had planned, and its data processing will continue under a timeline that allows for a full, fair, and accurate overall tabulation and reporting of the total population.

We mourn the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a trailblazer, cultural icon, and powerful force for good matched by few in American history. Her life testified to the promise of American democracy and the struggle to make real its most compelling ideals. She fought not just for herself, but for the generations of women to come.

BREAKING: A federal appeals court today upheld a Florida law that created wealth-based hurdles to voting. The decision denies voting rights to hundreds of thousands of people with past felony convictions. #Amendment4 brennancenter.org/our-work/analy… The case, Jones v DeSantis, concerned Senate Bill 7066, which was signed into law by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis in 2019. This law made voting rights for people with past felony convictions contingent on payment of all legal financial obligations.

@TexasNAACP and @ADLSouthwest filed a petition in intervention in State of Texas v. Chris Hollins, a lawsuit seeking to block the Harris County clerk from sending election materials and resources, including ballot-by-mail applications, to the county’s registered voters. The Texas Attorney General brought the case on August 31, arguing that the interim county clerk, Chris Hollins, lacks the legal authority to conduct the planned mailing. In fact, the clerk has clear authority to implement his plan.

BREAKING: The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California today ordered the Trump administration to cease shutting down its census operations for at least the next twelve days, until a scheduled Sept. 17 hearing. The order was issued after a hearing Friday in a lawsuit filed by civil rights groups, civil organizations and local governments last month to block the administration's attempt to rush census operations to a close by September 30.

We don’t know if the Kenosha police department has direct connections to active white supremacist groups. But, writes @RethinkIntel, the FBI has warned for decades that white supremacist and far-right militant groups often have links to law enforcement.
theguardian.com/commentisfree/… White supremacists and far-right militants have committed far more attacks and killed more people in the US over the last 10 years than any foreign terrorist movement. The FBI regards them as the most lethal domestic terror threat.

A federal appeals court hearing in a case that could enable hundreds of thousands of Floridians to register to vote in time for the November election concluded today after two hours of oral argument. brennancenter.org/our-work/analy… The case concerns SB7066, which was signed into law by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis in 2019. This law made voting rights for hundreds of thousands of people with past felony convictions contingent on payment of all legal financial obligations.

Today is the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, which gave some women the right to vote but didn’t address the barriers that existed for others, specifically women of color.

Pictured: Women in Puerto Rico registering to vote. PhotoQuest/Getty The suffrage movement, which was behind the ratification of the amendment, was built on a foundation of exclusion and racism.