As a former staff writer, Caroline tracked voting rights legislation, wrote the weekly newsletter and covered the intersection between voting and the criminal legal system. Originally from Cape Cod, Massachusetts, Caroline graduated from New York University Abu Dhabi in 2021. She advocates for jail-based voting and rights restoration in her home state.
The 2020 election was safe, secure and led to record turnout nationwide. Yet, red state after red state enacted new voter suppression laws in 2021. Today, we’re checking in with those laws, catching up on what’s happened and what to expect.
Florida is creating a law enforcement agency to investigate election crimes. In red states across the country, new laws have made it a civil or criminal offense to conduct much of the benign, but often important, work surrounding voting.
On Monday, March 28, a North Carolina trial court struck down a state law barring individuals with past felony convictions who are currently on community supervision (probation, post-release supervision or parole) from registering to vote.
We’re reviewing crucial voting rights cases decided by the U.S. Supreme Court. From 1876 to 2021, we saw the rise (and recent decline) in court protection for voting rights — here are ten cases that shaped history.
Two lawsuits filed in the past few months against the state of New York — over this line warming ban and these mail-in ballot rejection practices — demonstrate how bad voting laws are not constrained to red states.
Arkansas’ new election laws will have very real impacts on voters in the state. With the trial set to begin on March 15, find all the facts you need to know about Arkansas’ four challenged laws here.
In early February, there was a two-week bench trial for Florida’s voter suppression law where both sides presented witnesses and evidence. Here we summarize three takeaways from the trial based on the post-trial briefs.
Today, Biden announced his nominee to replace Justice Stephen Breyer on the U.S. Supreme Court: Ketanji Brown Jackson. In today’s piece, we’re giving you the rundown on Jackson’s background and her track record on democracy.
A Republican PAC has proposed two ballot measures that would severely restrict voting in Nevada. Two lawsuits have been filed to end these measures on the basis of their misleading description of effect. Here’s what’s going on in the Silver State.
As we celebrate Presidents’ Day 2022, we’re taking a look at four key inflection points for voting rights when the head of state either stepped up or was unable to meet the moment.
