Owen Bacskai

Jan 14, 2025 | brennancenter.org | Owen Bacskai |Eliza Sweren-Becker

View the entire Federal Attacks on the Freedom to Vote collection To kick off the year, House Republicans reintroduced the SAVE Act, which would require every American to provide documentary proof of citizenship to register or re-register to vote. The bill passed the House last year but failed to advance in the Senate. Now that the GOP has a governing trifecta in Washington for the next two years, Republican members have fast-tracked the bill in the House and pledged to make it a top priority.

Aug 12, 2024 | brennancenter.org | Daniel Weiner |Owen Bacskai

This article first appeared at The Guardian. It was 50 years ago – on 9 August 1974 – Richard Nixon resigned as president amid the “Watergate” scandal. In the American consciousness, Watergate typically means the botched break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters and the resulting illegal cover-up (facts that are newly relevant in the wake of the US supreme court’s much-criticized decision on presidential immunity last month).

May 10, 2024 | brennancenter.org | Daniel Weiner |Owen Bacskai

View the entire Trump Trials collection Since leaving office, former president Trump has been involved in an array of criminal and civil litigation — some that relates to his campaigns and presidency and some that does not. To cover the enormous legal bills, estimated at more than $100 million, he has turned to his political action committees (PACs), essentially having campaign donors pay costs for which he would otherwise be on the hook personally.

Sep 15, 2023 | brennancenter.org | Daniel Weiner |Owen Bacskai

As the 2024 presidential race heats up, attention is once again focused on the perennial problem of campaign finance rules not being enforced. This is likely to be a topic of discussion next Wednesday when members of the Federal Election Commission appear before a congressional committee for the agency’s first oversight hearing since 2011. While the FEC has recently made incremental progress on several emerging regulatory issues, its record of nonenforcement remains largely the same.

Sep 7, 2023 | brennancenter.org | Maya Efrati |Owen Bacskai |Jasleen Singh |Sara Carter

Voting in Texas has never been easy. However, on August 31, 2021, the Texas legislature made it even harder to vote by passing S.B. 1, an omnibus voter suppression bill. Among other things, S.B. 1 makes it more difficult for voters who have limited English proficiency, disabilities, and/or less formal education to receive assistance with voting at the polling place, curbside, or by mail.