Republicans Are Finally Being Held Accountable for Their Election Subversion
Multiple Indictments and disbarments signal long-awaited accountability for Republicans who subverted U.S. elections.
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Multiple Indictments and disbarments signal long-awaited accountability for Republicans who subverted U.S. elections.
For the first time in 15 years, a liberal majority holds the court which could mean true progress for democracy in and out of the state.
Analysis by Democracy Docket shows that congressional maps could change in 12 states before 2024 due to litigation. At least 40 districts are being challenged.
Already, we can see the first rumblings of the next Republican legal strategies echoing in lawsuits, court filings and legal opinions across the country.
In June, SCOTUS issued its decision in Allen v. Milligan, which upheld Section 2 of the VRA. In light of this decision, over 30 ongoing lawsuits with pending Section 2 claims will proceed in due course.
At the end of June, pro-voting groups resurrected the 150-year-old Virginia Readmission Act as the basis for a novel legal challenge to the Virginia Constitution’s lifetime ban on voting for individuals with any felony conviction.
To better understand the dangers posed by the ACE Act, we highlight three of its most harmful provisions, outline the conspiracies or falsehoods behind the measures and compare them to the provisions in the Freedom to Vote Act.
Elected officials, experts, activists and litigants react to the diverging decisions from the recent SCOTUS term.
A state court ordered New York’s IRC to redraw its congressional map. New York’s highest court will likely have the final say.
The U.S. Supreme Court’s 2022-23 term ended on June 30, with the release of the final opinions and the last order list. The term proved to be an important one for democracy, with two landmark voting rights cases and a slew of smaller decisions influencing our elections.