From redistricting to President Donald Trump’s executive power grab to the Justice Department’s war on voting and beyond, these top-visited stories highlight the issues that defined democracy in 2025.
It wasn’t the week’s biggest news. But on Friday, perhaps my favorite recent Democracy Docket story offered the kind of deep, granular reporting, exposing the people and institutions quietly leading Trump’s war on voting, that you won’t find anywhere else.
Voting advocates are signaling that they may soon ask the U.S. Supreme Court to review their long-running challenge to Texas’s sweeping voter-suppression law, S.B. 1, under Section 208 of the Voting Rights Act.
Just two months after Trump publicly ordered Attorney General Bondi to target a slew of his perceived enemies, the Justice Department’s efforts to go after them may be crumbling.
A Tennessee state judge dealt a blow to President Donald Trump’s effort to use soldiers in policing by temporarily halting Gov. Bill Lee’s (R) deployment of Tennessee National Guard troops to Memphis to assist with the Trump administration’s law enforcement surge in the city.
Democrats won a major legal victory Friday as a federal district court permanently enjoined the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) from implementing the provision in President Donald Trump’s executive order demanding a proof-of-citizenship requirement on the federal voter registration form.
A federal judge in Oregon for the second time in as many days barred President Donald Trump from sending National Guard soldiers to Portland.
To keep loyalists at the helm of U.S. attorneys’ offices, President Trump and the Justice Department are exploiting loopholes and making extraordinary claims of presidential power that legal experts warn circumvent the appointment processes laid out by the Constitution and federal statutes.
AUGUSTA, ME — Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows (D) issued a defiant response to the wide-ranging request from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) — first reported by Democracy Docket — for the state’s sensitive voter information and voting systems data. “The Gulf of Maine is awfully cold, but maybe that’s what the DOJ […]
Republicans filed a lawsuit Monday seeking to block a state law that allows certain U.S. citizens living abroad to vote in Arizona elections.
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