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The Brennan Center for Justice was founded in 1995 by the family and former law clerks of Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan Jr., whom The Washington Post called "the progressive voice of the modern court". [11] Justice Brennan's idea of a living constitution figures largely into the center's work. [12]
The Brennan Center for Justice estimates his legal costs exceed $100 million. How Is He Paying for This? Trump fundraised off his 34 felony charges in the New York hush money case, branding ...
The Brennan Center for Justice, for example, promotes "small donor public financing", i.e. a system where "public funds match and multiply small donations", the idea being candidates would be incentivized "to seek out many supporters, not just a few big donors". [45]
But an NBC News review of the laws and a new analysis from the Brennan Center, a nonpartisan law and policy institute affiliated with New York University School of Law, finds that most states ...
The organization works closely with the Brennan Center for Justice and Common Cause; in 2020 the organizations advocated together for election best practices, such as paper ballots and adequate election security funding, in key swing states. [3]
Katherine Ebright, counsel in the Brennan Center for Justice’s center for liberty and national security, said the 1798 Alien Enemies Act was intended to be used as a wartime authority to detain ...
The foundation also funds local Los Angeles organizations dedicated to environmental justice, such as East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice. [4] It has also provided funding for out-of-state organizations such as the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law. [5]
In 1995, the Brennan Center for Justice opened at New York University, a research institute created at the initiative of several of Brennan's former clerks, and named in his honor. [ 54 ] In November 1996, Brennan fell and broke his hip, and underwent rehabilitation for the injury at a nursing home in Arlington, Virginia , where he died on July ...