As a senior case coordinator at Democracy Docket, Rachel tracks and reports on a wide range of voting rights and election-related litigation. Originally from Connecticut, Rachel graduated from Washington University in St. Louis, where she participated in her university’s voter registration organization and served as a poll worker. In her free time, Rachel enjoys long-distance running and exploring local landmarks and museums.
The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a case challenging Mississippi’s lifetime ban on voting for individuals with certain felony convictions, which the state enshrined in its 1890 constitution with the express purpose of denying Black men the right to vote.
The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will hold oral argument Monday to weigh whether GOP North Carolina Supreme Court candidate Jefferson Griffin’s legal bid contesting his 2024 election loss to incumbent Democratic Justice Allison Riggs should proceed in state or federal court.
A Republican-appointed federal judge granted a request from Democratic attorneys general in Arizona, Illinois, Oregon and Washington to temporarily halt the implementation of President Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship for children born in the United States to undocumented parents or parents who have lawful, but temporary residency status.
In an unexpected move last night, the North Carolina Supreme Court dismissed GOP candidate Jefferson Griffin’s petition challenging over 60,000 ballots cast in his November 2024 race for a seat on the bench, which he lost to incumbent Democratic Justice Allison Riggs by over 700 votes.
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has agreed to weigh the issue of whether disqualifying mail-in ballots with incorrect or missing outer envelope dates violates the state constitution.
Today, a North Carolina judge rejected a request from the Republican National Committee (RNC), North Carolina GOP, Wake County GOP and two voters to toss out nearly 60,000 ballots cast in all 2024 statewide races.
The U.S. Supreme Court today declined to take up a Republican lawsuit alleging that North Dakota engaged in unconstitutional racial gerrymandering when it created two majority-Native American legislative districts following the 2020 census.
The state of Kansas agreed to permanently stop enforcing a law that undermined the work of voter registration organizations by imposing criminal penalties on individuals whose actions could be construed as conduct that would be undertaken by an election official.
A Missouri judge today permanently struck down four provisions of the state’s sweeping voter suppression law, House Bill 1878, that criminalized civic engagement activities like voter registration and the distribution of absentee ballot applications.
A federal judge tossed out a lawsuit from the right-wing Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) seeking to gain unfettered access to Wisconsin’s voter registration rolls — an effort that voting rights advocates feared could result in unlawful voter purges.