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The illusory threat of noncitizen voting was a centerpiece of the GOP’s 2024 campaign messaging. And now in power, Republicans are hunting evidence to justify the fearmongering and bolster their push for more restrictions.
It took nearly a century for Congress to enact legislation to enforce the 15th Amendment. It may take conservatives on the U.S. Supreme Court only a little more than a decade to fully eviscerate that law — the 1965 Voting Rights Act (VRA).
Over the last two weeks, President Donald Trump has barely managed to go a day without threatening to send the National Guard to Chicago — or New York, Baltimore, Seattle, New Orleans or any other American city. After ordering thousands of troops to Los Angeles in June and more to Washington, D.C. in August, Trump […]
A wave of court rulings and legislative efforts, largely driven by the GOP, has eroded vital protections that voters with disabilities have long relied on.
The Texas GOP’s latest gerrymander explicitly targets key districts represented by Latino-elected Democrats, underscoring a strategy to court Latino voters while cutting off their electoral power.
Voter ID laws don’t solve the problem of voter fraud — they solve the “problem” of high voter turnout.
The Voting Rights Act, the watershed Civil Rights era law that has prevented attempts to dilute minority votes through racially gerrymandered electoral maps hundreds of times, turns 60 Wednesday.
Recent legal battles underscore a growing trend by the GOP to disqualify ballots cast in state elections by longtime eligible citizens born and living overseas.
The Supreme Court’s decision last week to curtail nationwide injunctions has forced those challenging President Donald Trump’s authoritarian power grab to explore other legal avenues.
In federalizing the California National Guard over the objections of Gov. Gavin Newsom, Trump is asserting broad powers that could be used against any state, legal scholars and national security experts told Democracy Docket.
