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The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling gutting the Voting Rights Act (VRA) earlier this year continues to have cascading consequences across the country. Now, the upheaval has struck a group of Native American voters fighting a years-long battle for better representation in North Dakota’s state government.
The legal cases are primarily concentrated in the South, where America’s legacy of racial discrimination still casts the longest shadow over voting rights.
This week, Democracy Docket readers were first to learn about three important new developments in Republican voter suppression.
The U.S. Supreme Court is being asked to decide if citizens can still enforce the Voting Rights Act, after a federal appeals court ruled that only the government can enforce protections against racial discrimination in voting.
The Supreme Court temporarily blocked a federal appeals court’s ruling that would have stripped voters and private organizations of their right to enforce the Voting Rights Act
Much of President Donald Trump’s anti-voting executive order has been blocked by judges. But it’s having an impact nonetheless — by encouraging and emboldening state-level Republicans to pursue its anti-democratic goals.
Native American voters in North Dakota are preparing to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene after the federal appeals court ruled that private individuals cannot bring lawsuits under Section 2 — the part of the Voting Rights Act that bars racially discriminatory voting laws.
The ruling applies in seven states and further weakens the ability of the landmark civil rights law to protect voters.
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.
An executive order issued in 2021 by President Biden to promote voter registration is still drawing rebuke from GOP-led states in court.
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