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Oct 28, 2024 | 
brennancenter.org | Michael German
View the entire Project 2025 series The authors of the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 want you to believe that the FBI and Justice Department are infected with “woke culture,” distracted by “identity politics,” and “captured by . . . radical Left ideologues.” In Congress, Rep.
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Sep 23, 2024 | 
brennancenter.org | Michael German
This article first appeared in The Hill. Allies of former President Donald Trump want to bring back one of his administration’s most disastrous policies, the China Initiative. Project 2025, a set of policy proposals put forward by the conservative Heritage Foundation, recommends reviving the program through executive action. And House Republicans, joined by 23 Democrats, just passed a bill that would require reinstating a rebranded version of it.
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Sep 19, 2024 | 
thehill.com | Michael German
Allies of former President Donald Trump want to bring back one of his administration’s most disastrous policies, the China Initiative. Project 2025, a set of policy proposals put forward by the conservative Heritage Foundation, recommends reviving the program through executive action. And House Republicans, joined by 23 Democrats, just passed a bill that would require reinstating a rebranded version of it. For the sake of U.S. national security, these efforts must be defeated.
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Jan 25, 2024 | 
brennancenter.org | Michael German |Faiza Patel |Rachel Levinson-Waldman |Jose Gutierrez |José Gutiérrez
The Department of Justice has been publishing incomplete and conflicting data on domestic terrorism, thwarting effective policymaking and accountability on an issue it claims to prioritize. In December, the Brennan Center sent a letter to the department urging it to augment its data collection methods to ensure more accurate reporting in the future.
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Jan 25, 2024 | 
brennancenter.org | Michael German |Faiza Patel
Suscríbete aquí al nuevo boletín informativo del Brennan Center en españolEl Departamento de Justicia viene publicando datos incompletos y contradictorios sobre el terrorismo en Estados Unidos, con lo que impide la formulación de una política eficaz y el rendimiento de cuentas sobre un asunto al que alega dar prioridad. En diciembre, el Brennan Center envió una carta al departamento instándolo a intensificar sus métodos de recopilación de datos para asegurar informes más exactos en el futuro.
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Jan 16, 2024 | 
brennancenter.org | Sara Carter |Alice Clapman |Alexi Comella |Michael German
Aiming to derail a citizen initiative to protect abortion rights, Republicans in the Ohio legislature in 2023 tried to make it harder for citizens to amend the state constitution. Their methods were cynical but familiar. For years, some state lawmakers and officials have been trying to undermine avenues of direct democracy. Nearly half of all states include a right to direct democracy in their constitution.
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Oct 13, 2023 | 
brennancenter.org | Faiza Patel |Spencer Reynolds |Gabriella Sanchez |Michael German
This article first appeared at Emerging from the first of a planned series of listening sessions on AI on September 13, Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer reported that, during the closed-door meeting, every single person in attendance—mostly CEOs of tech companies and some civil society representatives—raised their hands when he asked if “government is needed to play a role in regulating AI.” Lawmakers and witnesses also expressed support for AI regulation during hearings held this past...
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Oct 11, 2023 | 
brennancenter.org | Elizabeth Goitein |Michael German
The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, an independent agency charged with ensuring that the federal government’s counterterrorism efforts respect Americans’ rights, recently released a report on Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. The controversial law, which expires at the end of this year, allows intelligence agencies to perform warrantless “backdoor” searches for Americans’ private communications.
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Aug 20, 2023 | 
antiwar.com | Michael German
The FBI is one of the most powerful institutions in the United States. It has the mission of protecting the public from serious crime, our democratic system from corruption, and our national security from threats from hostile foreign nations. The U.S. government has given it enormous power to serve these missions, often under a thick coat of secrecy. Not surprisingly then, throughout its history it has often abused these authorities. Holding it accountable has been difficult.
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Jul 28, 2023 | 
brennancenter.org | Spencer Reynolds |Gabriella Sanchez |Michael German |Faiza Patel
For months, environmental and racial justice activists in Atlanta have challenged the destruction of a local forest to create a training center for police and fire services, commonly known as “Cop City.” Since the protests began, over 40 people connected to the Cop City protests—including three people who operated a bail fund providing legal support to demonstrators—have been arrested and charged under state law for “domestic terrorism.” In justifying its actions, Georgia officials cited...
