Caroline has been a staff writer since 2021 and, in addition to her long-form content, writes the weekly On The Docket newsletter. Originally from Cape Cod, Massachusetts, Caroline graduated from New York University Abu Dhabi in 2021. She is particularly passionate about the intersection between voting rights and the criminal-legal system and supports jail-based voting advocacy in the Bay State. In her free time, Caroline plays in a soccer league and spends too much time in local coffee shops.
The struggle for voting rights in the United States is marred by violence and terror, but voter intimidation is not a relic of the past. Since 2020, there have been a few high profile examples of voter intimidation.
Community Success Initiative v. Moore, an ongoing lawsuit challenging North Carolina’s felony disenfranchisement law, will now meet its fate before the North Carolina Supreme Court. Here’s how we got here.
Minnesota’s Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party is ready to use its new trifecta control to improve voting access, already introducing a major package of pro-voting reforms, the Democracy for the People Act.
Arizona, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin were the top three states with the most voting and elections litigation in 2022, illustrating the competing priorities of groups looking to shape election policy through the courts.
Litigation moves slowly, so challenges to voter suppression laws and gerrymandered maps from previous years will have major updates in 2023. Here’s what to expect in courtrooms across the country.
Since a short U.S. Supreme Court order in 2006, the Purcell principle has spiraled out of control. In 2022, a shallow invocation of “confusion” has been used to uphold gerrymandered maps and unconstitutional voting restrictions.
This year, we saw a number of lawsuits filed against counties or cities. Here’s a roundup of some of the big themes that emerged from county-level action across the country this election cycle.
On Thursday, families and friends will gather to share a meal — and political opinions — this Thanksgiving. We’re pushing back against five myths you may hear and giving you the facts you need to counter them.
After the 2022 midterm elections, we’re highlighting five major wins this election cycle. Hear directly from the voters and organizations on the frontlines of democracy on what these wins meant to them and their constituencies.
Just because young voters showed up to the polls in 2022 and made their voices heard doesn’t mean state lawmakers or election officials made it easy to do so. In Missouri, one student group faced an uphill battle.
