Robyn Sanders

Jul 17, 2024 | brennancenter.org | Robyn Sanders |Alice Clapman

View the entire Limits on Voter Eligibility Challenges series Since the 2020 presidential election, false claims about the accuracy of the results have spurred a movement to challenge the eligibility of large numbers of voters. This resource explains the federal and state legal protections for eligible voters swept up in this effort. Most states allow private citizens to challenge their fellow citizens’ ballots or voter registrations, though the rules vary for how and when they can do so.

Jan 31, 2024 | brennancenter.org | Kendall Karson |Robyn Sanders

Suscríbete aquí al nuevo boletín informativo del Brennan Center en español Durante los primeros meses de 2022, un gran número de residentes de las colonias —comunidades empobrecidas a lo largo d el Valle del Río Grande en Texas— se acercaron a las oficinas de La Unión del Pueblo Entero (LUPE) para pedir ayuda para votar.

Sep 28, 2023 | statecourtreport.org | Mary Ziegler |Amanda Powers |Michael Milov-Cordoba |Robyn Sanders

Since the reversal of Roe v. Wade in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, state courts have moved to the center of the nation’s abortion wars. There are still key battles in federal court: over the application of the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act to state laws denying abortion access in medical emergencies or challenges to the Food and Drug Administration’s authority to approve the abortion drug mifepristone.

Sep 26, 2023 | statecourtreport.org | Michael Milov-Cordoba |Alicia Bannon |Gabriella Sanchez |Robyn Sanders

Last week, the Mississippi Supreme Court struck down part of a controversial law that created new appointed judgeships and prosecutors in Hinds County, an area that includes the capital city of Jackson and is over 70 percent Black. For over a century, Mississippi voters have chosen their circuit judges through elections. In Saunders v.

Sep 20, 2023 | brennancenter.org | Robyn Sanders |Michael Milov-Cordoba |Douglas Keith |Martha Kinsella

Like many state court systems in our country, the North Carolina judicial system has a deficit of racial diversity. Among the high court’s seven jurists, Justice Anita Earls is its only Black justice. The state’s pool of oral appellate attorneys and state supreme court judicial law clerks is similarly racially homogenous: white lawyers comprised over 90 percent of all oral advocates before the court in 2021 and 2022, and there has been only one law clerk of color during each of the last two terms.