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The Department of Justice (DOJ) is helping build a ‘national voter roll’ aimed at allowing the federal government to root out noncitizens, a group of former DOJ voting attorneys warned in a recent court filing opposing the agency’s demands for states’ unredacted voter registration information.
Republicans and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) argued in federal court this week that California’s new redistricting plan constitutes an illegal racial gerrymander — and not a legal partisan one, like Democrats claim.
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.
In a surprising twist, the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision to let Texas use its mid-decade gerrymander for the 2026 midterm elections may end up strengthening California’s defense of its voter-approved map.
A conservative legal group with a long record of attacking voting rights filed a lawsuit against California’s Proposition 50, seeking to block the state’s voter-approved congressional map.
The top election officials in 10 states are banding together to push back against the Trump administration’s demands for voter registration records, sending a joint letter Tuesday to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Department of Justice (DOJ) asking the federal government to clear up the contradictory statements the agencies have made over the data’s use.
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a motion Thursday to intervene in a Republican lawsuit aimed at blocking California’s new congressional map, which was overwhelmingly approved by voters last week.
From Virginia up to Maine, New Jersey out to California, and plenty of places in between, Tuesday was a great night for democracy — and an awful night for President Donald Trump.
A group of Republicans wasted no time Wednesday filing a lawsuit to block a redistricting measure overwhelmingly passed by California voters just the night before.
Tuesday was a brutal night for President Donald Trump and his axis of antidemocratic actors — and a huge night for democracy.
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