Donations spotlight: Support the Brennan Center for Justice in its fight to save our democracy

Note from the CREDO Mobile team: This June, the Brennan Center for Justice is among three amazing nonprofits that will receive a share of our monthly grant. Funding from the CREDO Mobile community will support the Brennan Center as it fights for equal justice and the rule of law and works for reforms that will make American democracy work—for all of us.

 Read this important message from the Brennan Center, then visit CREDO Donations and cast your vote to help send vital grant money to the group to assist its efforts—and the efforts of our other outstanding June grantees.

Attacks on the rule of law—on judges, on law firms, on news organizations, on universities, on civil rights laws, on voting rights enforcement—are threatening American democracy. What we’re seeing is a relentless drive for unchecked executive power. And everything is on the line.

The Brennan Center for Justice was made for this moment. We’re a nonpartisan legal and policy institute, the oldest in the country dedicated to strengthening democracy. We stand up for the Constitution. We stand up for the rule of law. We stand up for the country we love. And we won’t back down.

This moment demands innovation and new strategies. The Brennan Center—part think tank, part advocacy and legal group, part communications hub—has the expertise, the research and the mettle to devise and deliver solutions to defend democracy and improve it. To do this, we collaborate with a vast network of individuals and organizations like CREDO Mobile. These relationships span the political spectrum and make all of us stronger as, together, we protect democracy.

Here’s what we’re doing.

Fighting abuse of executive power

When a president declares an emergency to sidestep the rule of law and deny due process, it isn’t just wrong—it’s illegal. We have the nation’s leading experts on emergency powers and their expertise is helping us respond with force and focus to this administration’s use of the Alien Enemies Act. This wartime statute was last used to intern Japanese nationals and others during World War II. Its use during peacetime to strip away the right to fair court hearings is disgraceful. The Brennan Center and our allies are part of the legal effort pushing back on its use and making sure the Constitution is followed.

Brennan Center litigators and experts are also intervening in constitutional crises. We’re working to stop the executive branch’s assault on federal agencies—an unconstitutional seizure of powers that belong to Congress. We’re leading friend-of-the-court brief campaigns in major cases about the fate of these agencies as they head toward the Supreme Court.

Protecting the right to vote

The Brennan Center has a long history of fighting to preserve this keystone of a functional democracy. Right now we’re at the forefront of opposition to the SAVE Act—which would be the worst voting law passed by Congress. It would require citizens to produce a passport or birth certificate to register or reregister to vote. Our research shows that more than 21 million citizens don’t have ready access to these documents. The bill passed in the House, so we’re pushing for senators to stand firm and block it.

Along with co-counsel, we have taken the administration to court on behalf of the League of Women Voters and others over the voting executive order, specifically the SAVE Act-like requirement. In May, we won a preliminary injunction against that requirement.

Advocating for reforms

We know our systems need reform so that they are fair, free and work for everyone.

We are pushing for 18-year term limits for Supreme Court justices, with an ethics code, so the highest court can uphold the Constitution with far less partisanship and more accountability to the public.

Our work on criminal justice reform fights fear with facts—and brings together the left and right to ensure that public safety and fairness go hand in hand.

And as campaign donors play unprecedented roles in the federal government, we continue to focus on reducing the influence of money on politics, one of the Brennan Center’s first issues when we began three decades ago.

Working and winning for democracy

When the Brennan Center was founded in his name, Supreme Court Justice William Brennan Jr. said, “I know that the battle will not be easy. But I also know that, with your support, dedication and guidance, it will be won.”

Please join us in this battle. Your vote for the Brennan Center in this month’s CREDO Mobile donations election will help us secure American democracy’s future.