Trump targets the left; a ‘Super SAVE Act’; and an era of ‘resistance to democracy’
This week’s biggest story for democracy didn’t happen in a courtroom, a legislative chamber, or a government agency. It happened on a college campus in Utah.
As Democracy Docket’s managing editor, Zack steers our news coverage and provides editorial direction and oversight. A former national reporter at MSNBC digital and a former editorial director at the Brennan Center for Justice, he is the author of The Great Suppression: Voting Rights, Corporate Cash, and the Conservative Assault on Democracy.
This week’s biggest story for democracy didn’t happen in a courtroom, a legislative chamber, or a government agency. It happened on a college campus in Utah.
Catch up on Democracy Docket’s reporting from this week about Trump’s plan to control elections, the GOP’s nationwide gerrymander, and DOJ’s hunt for voter fraud.
The California Supreme Court late Wednesday denied a Republican petition to block the state’s new redistricting plan.
The National Association of Secretaries of State has been in contact with the DOJ about its outreach to states on voting data.
Days after saying it needed to redistrict because of constitutional concerns raised about its congressional map by the U.S. Department of Justice, Texas argued in a new court filing Saturday that those concerns are in fact off base.
Republicans are taking a very different approach to President Trump’s executive order on voting than they did for President Biden’s.
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