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The Department of Justice (DOJ) under President Donald Trump has turned its Civil Rights Division’s mission on its head, a federal judge said in a decision blocking the administration from demanding states’ unredacted voter rolls. District Court Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan, a Biden appointee who previously served as the division’s principal deputy assistant attorney general, […]
The lawsuit comes on the heels of a new report showing how the Department of Homeland Security has been laying the groundwork to exert control over voting.
Despite Americans’ eroding trust in the Supreme Court, Alito says he’s not discussed growing calls for expanding the court and setting term limits.
Out of thousands of lawsuits currently seeking the Court’s review, Democracy Docket’s Research Team has identified five voting rights and elections cases we’ll be looking out for.
President Donald Trump is annoyed with the U.S. Supreme Court again, this time for deciding to block a gerrymandered map in Missouri.
The U.S. Supreme Court Friday greenlit a flawed Trump administration database for purging voters from the rolls. And plenty of major news outlets were eager to downplay the decision’s importance.
The Court clarified one of its most controversial legal doctrines while inadvertently proving one of the primary criticisms of its “shadow docket” practices.
Missouri referendum proponents asked the U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday night to review a federal appeals court ruling requiring the state to use its 2025 GOP congressional gerrymander in the November midterms. The filing by People Not Politicians and its executive director Richard von Glahn* comes after the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals held that Missouri […]
This week saw the defeat of President Donald Trump’s most dangerous scheme to suppress voting and rig the 2026 election. And Democracy Docket surrounded the story from all angles.
The fate of access to the ballot in the 2026 midterm elections now sits in the hands of the U.S. Supreme Court.
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