Devon was a staff writer at Democracy Docket who focused on legislation and democracy reform. Originally from Lake Orion, Michigan, he earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan where he majored in political science and communications.
U.S. Senate Democrats have reintroduced the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, a landmark bill that would restore and strengthen the Voting Rights Act (VRA) to protect voters and democracy.
Vice President Kamala Harris reiterated the White House’s continued support for voting rights on Tuesday when she hosted a roundtable discussion with leaders and organizers leading the fight on the issue.
Earlier this week, Republican National Committee (RNC) chair Ronna McDaniel officially announced her upcoming resignation, paving the way for a Trump loyalist with a history of election denialism to take the Republican Party’s top post.
Missouri Senate Republicans have jammed through a bill that would significantly raise the threshold for constitutional amendments to pass, a move that would overturn nearly 200 years of precedent in a brazen attempt to stymie a potential November abortion rights amendment.
A key provision of the Civil Rights Act protects voters nationwide from being disenfranchised over innocent and minor accidental ballot mistakes. Republicans seem bothered by this reality, litigating against parties seeking to enforce the provision in a multitude of court cases throughout the country.
Earlier this month, U.S. Sens. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Laphonza Butler (D-Calif.) introduced the Redistricting Reform Act of 2024, legislation that would make a slew of impactful changes to the congressional redistricting process nationwide.
Thirteen Democratic U.S. senators, led by Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), sent a letter yesterday to the General Services Administration (GSA) requesting an update and pressing for the urgent implementation of President Joe Biden’s March 2021 executive order that seeks to modernize and promote voting access.
The state of Wisconsin — home to some of the most gerrymandered legislative districts in the country for more than a decade — will have fair maps in time for the 2024 general election, thanks to legislation signed on Monday by Gov. Tony Evers (D).
The Republican-controlled Wisconsin Legislature today passed legislative maps identical to those submitted by Gov. Tony Evers (D) in a bid to avoid a court-led redraw, rushing a process that Democrats labeled “shady political schemes.”
Yesterday, the Arizona Legislature, on bipartisan lines, overwhelmingly passed an urgently needed bill that would move the primary date up by a week and give counties a longer period to tally votes in order to ensure the state’s electoral votes are counted and that overseas and military voters could receive their ballots on time.